Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:05:37 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/14] ACPI / Video: blacklist some samsung laptops |
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:53:01AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote: > From: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> > > On these laptops, the ACPI video is not functional, and very unlikely > to be fixed by the vendor. Note that intel_backlight works for some > of these laptops, and the backlight from samsung-laptop always work. > > The good news is that newer laptops have functional ACPI video device > and won't end up growing this list.
Are the hotkeys delivered via ACPI or via the Samsung device? If the latter, you can just do unregister_acpi_video() instead in the samsung driver and avoid having more machine-specific quirks in the ACPi code.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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