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    ACPI / video: Default lcd_only to true on Win8-ready and newer machines · 5928c281
    Hans de Goede authored
    We're seeing a lot of bogus backlight interfaces on newer machines without
    a LCD such as desktops, servers and HDMI sticks. This causes userspace to
    show a non-functional brightness slider in e.g. the GNOME3 system menu,
    which is undesirable. And, in general, we should simply just not register
    a non functional backlight interface.
    
    Checking the LCD flag causes the bogus acpi_video backlight interfaces to
    go away (on the machines this was tested on).
    
    This change sets the lcd_only option by default on any machines which
    are Win8-ready, to fix this.
    
    This is not entirely without a risk of regressions, but video_detect.c
    already prefers native-backlight interfaces over the acpi_video one
    on Win8-ready machines, calling acpi_video_unregister_backlight() as soon
    as a native interface shows up. This is done because the ACPI backlight
    interface often is broken on Win8-ready machines, because win8 does not
    seem to actually use it.
    
    So in practice we already end up not registering the ACPI backlight
    interface on (most) Win8-ready machines with a LCD panel, thus this
    change does not change anything for (most) machines with a LCD panel
    and on machines without a LCD panel we actually don't want to register
    any backlight interfaces.
    
    This has been tested on the following machines and fixes a bogus backlight
    interface showing up there:
     - Desktop with an Asrock B150M Pro4S/D3 m.b. using i5-6500 builtin gfx
     - Intel Compute Stick STK1AW32SC
     - Meegopad T08 HDMI stick
    
    Bogus backlight interfaces have also been reported on:
     - Desktop with Asus H87I-Plus m.b.
     - Desktop with ASRock B75M-ITX m.b.
     - Desktop with Gigabyte Z87-D3HP m.b.
     - Dell PowerEdge T20 desktop
    
    Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097436
    Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133327
    Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133329
    Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133646
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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