Some backlight patches for the Fedora kernel

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 12-01-15 15:14, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Josh,
>>>
>>> Attached are 3 patches for the current F-21 kernel,
>>> fixing various backlight issues. All 3 have been
>>> sent upstream, and patch 2 is already upstream, so
>>> likely not needed for rawhide.
>>>
>>> Together these 3 patches fix:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094948
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115713
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163574
>>>
>>> Can you please add these to the Fedora kernel builds?
>>
>>
>> Added.
>>
>> Similar question to the other thread.  We're still carrying:
>>
>> samsung-laptop-Add-broken-acpi-video-quirk-for-NC210.patch
>>
>> What happened with that one?
>
>
> Similar answer :) Getting upstream took a while, but it is in
> Torvalds tree now, see:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c

Ah, cool.  Went into 3.18 and because patch(1) is awesome it happily
continued to apply another copy of the same quirk.  Sigh.  I'll drop
the patch from rawhide.

Thanks Hans.

josh