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-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
index 97b711e57bff..c7a6d0b69dab 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
@@ -1984,6 +1984,7 @@ static int instance;
static int acpi_video_bus_add(struct acpi_device *device)
{
struct acpi_video_bus *video;
+ bool auto_detect;
int error;
acpi_status status;
@@ -2045,10 +2046,20 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_add(struct acpi_device *device)
mutex_unlock(&video_list_lock);
/*
- * The userspace visible backlight_device gets registered separately
- * from acpi_video_register_backlight().
+ * If backlight-type auto-detection is used then a native backlight may
+ * show up later and this may change the result from video to native.
+ * Therefor normally the userspace visible /sys/class/backlight device
+ * gets registered separately by the GPU driver calling
+ * acpi_video_register_backlight() when an internal panel is detected.
+ * Register the backlight now when not using auto-detection, so that
+ * when the kernel cmdline or DMI-quirks are used the backlight will
+ * get registered even if acpi_video_register_backlight() is not called.
*/
acpi_video_run_bcl_for_osi(video);
+ if (__acpi_video_get_backlight_type(false, &auto_detect) == acpi_backlight_video &&
+ !auto_detect)
+ acpi_video_bus_register_backlight(video);
+
acpi_video_bus_add_notify_handler(video);
return 0;