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    ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: prefer standard ACPI backlight level control · e11e211a
    Henrique de Moraes Holschuh authored
    Newer Lenovo BIOSes support the standard ACPI backlight brightness
    interface (_BCM, _BQC, _BCL).  It should be used instead of the native
    thinkpad backlight brightness control interface when possible.
    
    This patch disables the native brightness support in the driver by default
    when we detect that the standard ACPI interface is available.  The local
    admin can still enable it using the module parameter "brightness_enable".
    
    Note that we need to detect the standard ACPI backlight interface only in
    boxes for which we would load the native backlight interface in the first
    place, and that no ThinkPad BIOS has _BCL but misses the other methods, so
    the detection routines can be really simple.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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