From b1289371fcd580b4c412e6d05c4cb8ac8d277239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:44:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "drm/i915: write backlight harder" This reverts commit cf0a6584aa6d382f802f2c3cacac23ccbccde0cd. Turns out that cargo-culting breaks systems. Note that we can't revert further, since commit 770c12312ad617172b1a65b911d3e6564fc5aca8 Author: Takashi Iwai Date: Sat Aug 11 08:56:42 2012 +0200 drm/i915: Fix blank panel at reopening lid fixed a regression in 3.6-rc kernels for which we've never figured out the exact root cause. But some further inspection of the backlight code reveals that it's seriously lacking locking. And especially the asle backlight update is know to get fired (through some smm magic) when writing specific backlight control registers. So the possibility of suffering from races is rather real. Until those races are fixed I don't think it makes sense to try further hacks. Which sucks a bit, but sometimes that's how it is :( References: http://www.mail-archive.com/intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org/msg18788.html Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47941 Tested-by: Takashi Iwai Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (the reverted commit was cc: stable, too) Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter --- Reading git-format-patch failed