Commit 5cdcf753 authored by Scot Doyle's avatar Scot Doyle Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drm/i915: quirk asserts controllable backlight presence, overriding VBT

commit 9c72cc6f upstream.

commit c675949e
Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 9 11:31:37 2014 +0300

    drm/i915: do not setup backlight if not available according to VBT

caused a regression on machines with a misconfigured VBT. Add a quirk to
assert the presence of a controllable backlight. Use it to ignore the VBT
backlight presence check during backlight setup.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79813


Tested-by: default avatarJames Duley <jagduley@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMichael Mullin <masmullin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarScot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
[danvet: Add cc: stable because the regressing commit is in 3.15.]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent bef3c4fb
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