From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757841Ab2B2Rxd (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:53:33 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:47346 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757503Ab2B2Rxb (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:53:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:53:27 -0600 From: Seth Forshee To: Grant Likely Cc: Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: Add driver for Apple gmux device Message-ID: <20120229175327.GA20565@ubuntu-macmini> Mail-Followup-To: Grant Likely , Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1329424465-1211-1-git-send-email-seth.forshee@canonical.com> <1329921457-26887-1-git-send-email-seth.forshee@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:46:39AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Seth Forshee > wrote: > > Apple laptops with hybrid graphics have a device named gmux that > > controls the muxing of the LVDS panel between the GPUs as well as screen > > brightness. This driver adds support for the gmux device. Only backlight > > control is supported initially. > > > > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee > > Works for me. > > Tested-by: Grant Likely > > Now I just need to figure out how to get the desktop backlight widget > to use gmux_backlight instead of acpi_video0... The easy way is to pass acpi_backlight=vendor to the kernel, then you won't have acpi_vidoe0. Seth