Add patch to enable keyboard backlight on Sony laptops (rhbz 728478)

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sony-laptop-Enable-keyboard-backlight-by-default.patch b/sony-laptop-Enable-keyboard-backlight-by-default.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c993fd86d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sony-laptop-Enable-keyboard-backlight-by-default.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From 0dbc2bc96b1ec741bdd43451c286ccd45da3310b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 14:31:59 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] sony-laptop: Enable keyboard backlight by default
+
+When the keyboard backlight support was originally added, the commit said
+to default it to on with a 10 second timeout.  That actually wasn't the
+case, as the default value is commented out for the kbd_backlight parameter.
+Because it is a static variable, it gets set to 0 by default without some
+other form of initialization.
+
+However, it seems the function to set the value wasn't actually called
+immediately, so whatever state the keyboard was in initially would remain.
+Then commit df410d522410e67660 was introduced during the 2.6.39 timeframe to
+immediately set whatever value was present (as well as attempt to
+restore/reset the state on module removal or resume).  That seems to have
+now forced the light off immediately when the module is loaded unless
+the option kbd_backlight=1 is specified.
+
+Let's enable it by default again (for the first time).  This should solve
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728478
+
+Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
+Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
+---
+ drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c |    2 +-
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
+index c006dee..40c4705 100644
+--- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
++++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
+@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(minor,
+ 		 "default is -1 (automatic)");
+ #endif
+ 
+-static int kbd_backlight;	/* = 1 */
++static int kbd_backlight = 1;
+ module_param(kbd_backlight, int, 0444);
+ MODULE_PARM_DESC(kbd_backlight,
+ 		 "set this to 0 to disable keyboard backlight, "
+-- 
+1.7.7.6
+