tree 459d6d08ade437bae2c95b60b5bef0fe4dbc8201
parent 2124b72e6283c4e84a55e71077fee91793f4c801
author Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> 1363963486 +0100
committer Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> 1364127800 +0100

Revert "drm/i915: write backlight harder"

This reverts commit cf0a6584aa6d382f802f2c3cacac23ccbccde0cd.

Turns out that cargo-culting breaks systems. Note that we can't revert
further, since

commit 770c12312ad617172b1a65b911d3e6564fc5aca8
Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Sat Aug 11 08:56:42 2012 +0200

    drm/i915: Fix blank panel at reopening lid

fixed a regression in 3.6-rc kernels for which we've never figured out
the exact root cause. But some further inspection of the backlight
code reveals that it's seriously lacking locking. And especially the
asle backlight update is know to get fired (through some smm magic)
when writing specific backlight control registers. So the possibility
of suffering from races is rather real.

Until those races are fixed I don't think it makes sense to try
further hacks. Which sucks a bit, but sometimes that's how it is :(

References: http://www.mail-archive.com/intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org/msg18788.html
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47941
Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (the reverted commit was cc: stable, too)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>