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-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
index 0972ec0e2eb8..f53ccc680238 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(report_key_events,
static bool device_id_scheme = false;
module_param(device_id_scheme, bool, 0444);
-static bool only_lcd = false;
-module_param(only_lcd, bool, 0444);
+static int only_lcd = -1;
+module_param(only_lcd, int, 0444);
static int register_count;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(register_count_mutex);
@@ -2136,6 +2136,16 @@ int acpi_video_register(void)
goto leave;
}
+ /*
+ * We're seeing a lot of bogus backlight interfaces on newer machines
+ * without a LCD such as desktops, servers and HDMI sticks. Checking
+ * the lcd flag fixes this, so enable this on any machines which are
+ * win8 ready (where we also prefer the native backlight driver, so
+ * normally the acpi_video code should not register there anyways).
+ */
+ if (only_lcd == -1)
+ only_lcd = acpi_osi_is_win8();
+
dmi_check_system(video_dmi_table);
ret = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_video_bus);