On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Azael Avalos wrote:
> If transflective backlight is supported and the brightness is zero
> (lowest brightness level), the set_lcd_brightness function will activate
> the transflective backlight, making the LCD appear to be turned off.
> 
> This patch fixes the issue by incrementing the brightness level, and
> by doing so, avoiding the activation of the tranflective backlight.

So... I'm not sure this is a bug or even wrong behavior. The lowest setting on
my Thinkpad Yoga 12 is also "off" in Linux. Same is true for my Mac Book Pro (in
Mac OS X).

>From what I can tell, what this patch does is merely disable the lowest 
>setting.

What is it about this behavior that is considered to be wrong?

> 
> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
> Reported-and-tested-by: Fabian Koester <fabian.koes...@bringnow.com>
> Signed-off-by: Azael Avalos <coproscef...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c 
> b/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c
> index 2ca3f91..b6a7dc9 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c
> @@ -2634,6 +2634,14 @@ static int toshiba_acpi_setup_backlight(struct 
> toshiba_acpi_dev *dev)
>       brightness = __get_lcd_brightness(dev);
>       if (brightness < 0)
>               return 0;
> +     /*
> +      * If transflective backlight is supported and the brightness is zero
> +      * (lowest brightness level), the set_lcd_brightness function will
> +      * activate the transflective backlight, making the LCD appear to be
> +      * turned off, simply increment the brightness level to avoid that.
> +      */
> +     if (dev->tr_backlight_supported && brightness == 0)
> +             brightness++;
>       ret = set_lcd_brightness(dev, brightness);
>       if (ret) {
>               pr_debug("Backlight method is read-only, disabling backlight 
> support\n");
> -- 
> 2.6.2
> 
> 

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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