On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 13:35 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Some machines use an external EC for controlling the backlight. Info
> about this is present in the VBT. Do not setup native backlight control
> if no PWM backlight is available or supported according to VBT. The
> acpi_backlight interface appears to work for the EC control.
> 
> In most cases there has been no harm done, but it looks like there are
> machines out there that have both an EC and our PWM line connected to
> the same wire. This, obviously, does not end well.
> 
> This should fix the regression caused by
> commit bc0bb9fd1c7810407ab810d204bbaecb255fddde
> Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Nov 14 12:14:29 2013 +0200
> 
>     drm/i915: remove QUIRK_NO_PCH_PWM_ENABLE


Works great!  These patches do indeed re-fix backlight control in v3.14,
on both of the two XPS13 models that had needed the NO_PCH_PWM_ENABLE
quirk.

Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com>

Thanks Jani!

 -Kamal


> AFAICT the quirk removed by the above commit effectively resulted in
> i915 not driving the backlight PWM output, thus not messing things up.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76276
> Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47941
> CC: Aaron Lu <aaron...@intel.com>
> CC: Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com>
> CC: Eric Griffith <egriffit...@gmail.com>
> CC: Kent Baxley <kent.bax...@canonical.com>
> CC: sta...@vger.kernel.org [v3.14+]
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> index cb058408c70e..0eead16aeda7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
> @@ -1065,6 +1065,11 @@ int intel_panel_setup_backlight(struct drm_connector 
> *connector)
>       unsigned long flags;
>       int ret;
>  
> +     if (!dev_priv->vbt.backlight.present) {
> +             DRM_DEBUG_KMS("native backlight control not available per 
> VBT\n");
> +             return 0;
> +     }
> +
>       /* set level and max in panel struct */
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_priv->backlight_lock, flags);
>       ret = dev_priv->display.setup_backlight(intel_connector);

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