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| author | Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> | 2007-03-03 17:43:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> | 2007-03-05 08:49:38 +0000 |
| commit | 202d4e602555e68c2bc71775228876b0356785c8 (patch) | |
| tree | e47c4013016e21a231b9d2873a2d75aa2750c5fe /drivers/video/riva | |
| parent | 238576e12fef1d52751c6e08db2d0bdb0e248caf (diff) | |
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backlight: Allow enable/disable of fb backlights, fixing regressions
Enabling the backlight by default appears to cause problems for many
users. This patch disables backlight controls unless explicitly
enabled by users via a module parameter. Since PMAC users are known
to work, default to enabled in that case.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/riva')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c b/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c index f8a3d608b208..1d1c7c624d7f 100644 --- a/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c +++ b/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c @@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ static int noaccel __devinitdata = 0; #ifdef CONFIG_MTRR static int nomtrr __devinitdata = 0; #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT +static int backlight __devinitdata = 1; +#else +static int backlight __devinitdata = 0; +#endif static char *mode_option __devinitdata = NULL; static int strictmode = 0; @@ -2059,7 +2064,10 @@ static int __devinit rivafb_probe(struct pci_dev *pd, info->monspecs.modedb = NULL; pci_set_drvdata(pd, info); - riva_bl_init(info->par); + + if (backlight) + riva_bl_init(info->par); + ret = register_framebuffer(info); if (ret < 0) { printk(KERN_ERR PFX @@ -2157,6 +2165,8 @@ static int __init rivafb_setup(char *options) forceCRTC = -1; } else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "flatpanel", 9)) { flatpanel = 1; + } else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "backlight:", 10)) { + backlight = simple_strtoul(this_opt+10, NULL, 0); #ifdef CONFIG_MTRR } else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "nomtrr", 6)) { nomtrr = 1; |