Toshiba backlight patch for Fedora kernels

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> I've a patch for the Toshiba ACPI kernel driver fixing backlight issues
> on various models, it fixes these 2 bugs:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206036
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215989
>
> Which are a regression starting with 3.19, since we got 2 bugs in a
> short time this likely affects more users.
>
> The fix for this got merged recently:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c?id=358d6a2c3ecae2b22c7d7e61f9d5672557446dfb
>
> I think it would be good to apply this to the Fedora 4.0 / 3.19
> kernels, I've attached a version for those (resolves a 1 line conflict
> in the #includes). I say I think because although it looks like this
> patch will fix issues on various models, it may also introduce issues
> on other models which is why I've not added a Cc: stable for upstream.
>
> Still overall I think we should apply this.

Thanks Hans.  I'll get it in today.

josh