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Subject[PATCH] ACPI video: Ignore errors after _DOD evaluation.
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There are systems where video module known to work fine regardless
of broken _DOD and ignoring returned value here doesn't cause
any issues later. This should fix brightness controls on some laptops.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47861

Signed-off-by: Igor Murzov <e-mail@date.by>
Reviewed-by: Sergey V <sftp.mtuci@gmail.com>
---
Previous discussion of the issue:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/56345

drivers/acpi/video.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index f94d4c8..0230cb6 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -1345,12 +1345,15 @@ static int
acpi_video_bus_get_devices(struct acpi_video_bus *video,
struct acpi_device *device)
{
- int status;
+ int status = 0;
struct acpi_device *dev;

- status = acpi_video_device_enumerate(video);
- if (status)
- return status;
+ /*
+ * There are systems where video module known to work fine regardless
+ * of broken _DOD and ignoring returned value here doesn't cause
+ * any issues later.
+ */
+ acpi_video_device_enumerate(video);

list_for_each_entry(dev, &device->children, node) {

--
1.7.12.1


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