thinkpad-acpi: document backlight level writeback at driver init
authorHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Sun, 16 May 2010 22:45:57 +0000 (19:45 -0300)
committerHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Sun, 16 May 2010 22:45:57 +0000 (19:45 -0300)
Document this, it is no fun to try to second guess why this sort of
stuff is in place years after it was added...

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c

index b3bfce9..4bdb137 100644 (file)
@@ -6397,6 +6397,10 @@ static int __init brightness_init(struct ibm_init_struct *iibm)
                        "or not on your ThinkPad\n", TPACPI_MAIL);
        }
 
+       /* Added by mistake in early 2007.  Probably useless, but it could
+        * be working around some unknown firmware problem where the value
+        * read at startup doesn't match the real hardware state... so leave
+        * it in place just in case */
        backlight_update_status(ibm_backlight_device);
 
        vdbg_printk(TPACPI_DBG_INIT | TPACPI_DBG_BRGHT,