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On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 06:47:55 PM Steven Newbury wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:56 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, July 22, 2013 06:16:20 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:02 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > > In the meantime I received a report from Steven Newbury that these changes
> > > > broke things for him too, so we need to revert commits 8c5bd7a and efaa14c.
> > > > The other two commits in the series should be benign.
> > >
> > > Could you let me know the details of this problem?
> >
> > Steven, can you please describe the problem you're seeing to Matthew and
> > the other people on the list?
> >
> > Rafael
> >
>
> Before the changes backlight was working fine using the ACPI method:
> /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/ is present and the keyboard function keys
> control brightness with notifications working in GNOME.
>
> In the code as was present in the linux-pm/bleeding-edge tree I would
> encounter a hard lockup on keyboard brightness trigger. This also occurred with
> the code as it initially hit mainline, but a later commit fixed the crash*, but
> resulted in no backlight controls being available at all.
> /sys/class/backlight is empty.
>
> *not actually sure if /sys/class/backlight contained anything before this

Hmm. Which commit fixed the crash for you?

Rafael



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