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    ACPI / video: Do not register backlight if win8 and native interface exists · fbc9fe1b
    Aaron Lu authored
    According to Matthew Garrett, "Windows 8 leaves backlight control up
    to individual graphics drivers rather than making ACPI calls itself.
    There's plenty of evidence to suggest that the Intel driver for
    Windows [8] doesn't use the ACPI interface, including the fact that
    it's broken on a bunch of machines when the OS claims to support
    Windows 8.  The simplest thing to do appears to be to disable the
    ACPI backlight interface on these systems".
    
    So for Win8 systems, if there is native backlight control interface
    registered by GPU driver, ACPI video does not need to register its own.
    Since there are systems that don't work well with this approach, a
    parameter for video module named use_native_backlight is introduced and
    has the value of false by default. For users who have a broken ACPI
    video backlight interface, video.use_native_backlight=1 is needed in
    kernel cmdline.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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