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Commit 22c13f9d authored by Thomas Renninger's avatar Thomas Renninger Committed by Len Brown
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ACPI: video: Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware

This is a reimplemention of commit
0119509c


from Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>

This patch got removed because of a regression: ThinkPads with a
Intel graphics card and an Integrated Graphics Device BIOS implementation
stopped working.
In fact, they only worked because the ACPI device of the discrete, the
wrong one, got used (via int10). So ACPI functions were poking on the wrong
hardware used which is a sever bug.
The next patch provides support for above ThinkPads to be able to
switch brightness via the legacy thinkpad_acpi driver and automatically
detect when to use it.

Original commit message from Matthew Garrett:
    Vendors often ship machines with a choice of integrated or discrete
    graphics, and use the same DSDT for both. As a result, the ACPI video
    module will locate devices that may not exist on this specific platform.
    Attempt to determine whether the device exists or not, and abort the
    device creation if it doesn't.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9614

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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