From patchwork Thu Jun 8 09:12:58 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Hans de Goede X-Patchwork-Id: 13271803 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB83C7EE23 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2023 09:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233840AbjFHJOE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2023 05:14:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57690 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233176AbjFHJNy (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2023 05:13:54 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B32518F for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2023 02:13:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1686215588; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=16KxC6axyYz6jl6eF4eiauurZZuB6mm1c7hjr9Mvt8I=; b=NwDnlDJA7Kst4GGZcAUZ8ITL7o2WKgL4VNZp4v4kSWbz5Q6vONNdRsMEBjtfv68T6D/ziA 4XUzhRD52Ibt7u63ykIqFCuiJkZi9al4bt25/7q96SnCs57aMMf+e2RLcLDFz2cM4cgBdN V2NbQbscvum9xjdcSARYUwCjaad+Swc= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-599-HzJFljjhNpynOZWbY0SdsQ-1; Thu, 08 Jun 2023 05:13:05 -0400 X-MC-Unique: HzJFljjhNpynOZWbY0SdsQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F09FB3802AE3; Thu, 8 Jun 2023 09:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [10.39.195.19]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040BDC0004B; Thu, 8 Jun 2023 09:13:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Hans de Goede To: "Rafael J . Wysocki" Cc: Hans de Goede , Mika Westerberg , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , AceLan Kao Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: video: Stop trying to use vendor backlight control on laptops from after ~2012 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 11:12:58 +0200 Message-Id: <20230608091258.7963-1-hdegoede@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.8 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org There have been 2 separate reports now about a non working "dell_backlight" device getting registered under /sys/class/backlight 1 report for a Raptor Lake based Dell and 1 report for a Meteor Lake (development) platform. On hw from the last 10 years dell-laptop will not register "dell_backlight" because acpi_video_get_backlight_type() will return acpi_backlight_video there if called before the GPU/kms driver loads. So it does not matter if the GPU driver's native backlight is registered after dell-laptop loads. But it seems that on the latest generation laptops the ACPI tables no longer contain acpi_video backlight control support which causes acpi_video_get_backlight_type() to return acpi_backlight_vendor causing "dell_backlight" to get registered if the dell-laptop module is loaded before the GPU/kms driver. Vendor specific backlight control like the "dell_backlight" device is only necessary on quite old hw (from before acpi_video backlight control was introduced). Work around "dell_backlight" registering on very new hw (where acpi_video backlight control seems to be no more) by making acpi_video_get_backlight_type() return acpi_backlight_none instead of acpi_backlight_vendor as final fallback when the ACPI tables have support for Windows 8 or later (laptops from after ~2012). Suggested-by: Matthew Garrett Reported-by: AceLan Kao Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20230607034331.576623-1-acelan.kao@canonical.com/ Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede --- drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c index b87783c5872d..eb014c0eba42 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c @@ -844,6 +844,27 @@ enum acpi_backlight_type __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(bool native, bool *auto if (native_available) return acpi_backlight_native; + /* + * The vendor specific BIOS interfaces are only necessary for + * laptops from before ~2008. + * + * For laptops from ~2008 till ~2023 this point is never reached + * because on those (video_caps & ACPI_VIDEO_BACKLIGHT) above is true. + * + * Laptops from after ~2023 no longer support ACPI_VIDEO_BACKLIGHT, + * if this point is reached on those, this likely means that + * the GPU kms driver which sets native_available has not loaded yet. + * + * Returning acpi_backlight_vendor in this case is known to sometimes + * cause a non working vendor specific /sys/class/backlight device to + * get registered. + * + * Return acpi_backlight_none on laptops with ACPI tables written + * for Windows 8 (laptops from after ~2012) to avoid this problem. + */ + if (acpi_osi_is_win8()) + return acpi_backlight_none; + /* No ACPI video/native (old hw), use vendor specific fw methods. */ return acpi_backlight_vendor; }