ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP Pavilion g6

This patch addresses kernel bug 56661. BIOS reports an incorrect
backlight value, causing the driver to switch off the backlight
completely during startup. This patch ignores the incorrect value from
BIOS.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56661
Signed-off-by: Ash Willis <ashwillis@programmer.net>
Cc: All <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index d0937ab3fb6d3bab5e56bd6b6d667ab1c0a6bb3f..5d7075d25700b3bbd2cbe65772391155d1a10d30 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -456,6 +456,14 @@ static struct dmi_system_id video_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
                DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "HP Pavilion dm4 Notebook PC"),
                },
        },
+       {
+        .callback = video_ignore_initial_backlight,
+        .ident = "HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC",
+        .matches = {
+                DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Hewlett-Packard"),
+                DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC"),
+               },
+       },
        {
         .callback = video_ignore_initial_backlight,
         .ident = "HP 1000 Notebook PC",