thinkpad-acpi: report brightness events when required
authorHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:22:18 +0000 (15:22 -0300)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:54:34 +0000 (00:54 -0400)
commitde4c8cc7bddd9c43dc1b85517ab445ffa8163058
tree80397a4742e942dd05949267421d20f24885aeab
parent230d8cf25ac32c7d2fdb4dda861ec5d954000ffb
thinkpad-acpi: report brightness events when required

Report KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP and KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN input events when the
ThinkPad is in "passive brightness control" mode (because either we or
ACPI video touched _BCL), and ACPI video is not processing these
events by itself.

This happens only on Lenovo ThinkPads with ACPI video support, when
operating with the ACPI video driver in acpi_backlight=vendor mode.

Issuing these events is the right thing to do, and will work around
bugzilla #13368, if userspace is properly configured and actively
handles these events.

For other ThinkPads, and when ACPI video is handling brightness
changes, thinkpad-acpi will continue NOT sending KEY_BRIGHTNESS*
events by default.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c