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SubjectRE: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Fix backlight detection
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.rohar@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2018 8:09 AM
> To: Damien Thébault
> Cc: Matthew Garrett; Darren Hart; Andy Shevchenko; Limonciello, Mario; platform-
> driver-x86@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Fix backlight detection
>
> On Sunday 08 July 2018 17:02:20 Damien Thébault wrote:
> > Fix return code check for "max brightness" ACPI call.
> >
> > The dell laptop ACPI video brightness control is not present on dell
> > laptops anymore, but was present in older kernel versions.
> >
> > The code that checks the return value is incorrect since the SMM
> > refactoring.
> >
> > The old code was:
> > if (buffer->output[0] == 0)
> >
> > Which was changed to:
> > ret = dell_send_request(...)
> > if (ret)
> >
> > However, dell_send_request() will return 0 if buffer->output[0] == 0,
> > so we must change the check to:
> > if (ret == 0)
>
> You are right, dell_send_request() return non-zero value on error.
>
> > This issue was found on a Dell M4800 laptop, and the fix tested on it
> > as well.
> >
> > Fixes: 549b4930f057 ("dell-smbios: Introduce dispatcher for SMM calls")
> > Signed-off-by: Damien Thébault <damien@dtbo.net>
> > Tested-by: Damien Thébault <damien@dtbo.net>
> > ---
> > drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> > b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c index f1fa8612db40..06978c14c83b
> > 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> > @@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ static int __init dell_init(void)
> > dell_fill_request(&buffer, token->location, 0, 0, 0);
> > ret = dell_send_request(&buffer,
> > CLASS_TOKEN_READ,
> > SELECT_TOKEN_AC);
> > - if (ret)
> > + if (ret == 0)
> > max_intensity = buffer.output[3];
> > }
> >
>
> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
>

Thanks for this catch.

Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>

This should probably go to stable as well.
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