From 4437cd1e98409e236a9d303fb742fdd53b3a20bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 02:40:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] backlight: do not power off backlight when unregistering ACPI drivers like ibm-acpi are moving to the backlight sysfs infrastructure. During ibm-acpi testing, I have noticed that backlight_device_unregister() sets the display brightness and power to zero. This causes the display to be dimmed on ibm-acpi module removal. It will affect all other ACPI drivers that are being converted to use the backlight class, as well. It also affects a number of framebuffer devices that are used on desktops and laptops which might also not want such behaviour. Since working around this behaviour requires undesireable hacks, Richard Purdie decided that we would be better off reverting the changes in the sysfs class, and adding the code to dim and power off the backlight device to the drivers that want it. This patch is my attempt to do so. Patch against latest linux-2.6.git. Changes untested, as I lack the required hardware. Still, they are trivial enough that, apart from typos, there is little chance of getting them wrong. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Acked-by: Richard Purdie Acked-by: Pavel Machek Acked-by: James Simmons Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/video/backlight/locomolcd.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/video/backlight/locomolcd.c') diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/locomolcd.c b/drivers/video/backlight/locomolcd.c index 628571c63ba..2d7905410b2 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/locomolcd.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/locomolcd.c @@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ static int locomolcd_remove(struct locomo_dev *dev) { unsigned long flags; + locomobl_data.brightness = 0; + locomobl_data.power = 0; + locomolcd_set_intensity(locomolcd_bl_device); + backlight_device_unregister(locomolcd_bl_device); local_irq_save(flags); locomolcd_dev = NULL; -- cgit