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Commit cac6a5ae authored by Jani Nikula's avatar Jani Nikula Committed by Daniel Vetter
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drm/i915: try not to lose backlight CBLV precision

ACPI has _BCM and _BQC methods to set and query the backlight
brightness, respectively. The ACPI opregion has variables BCLP and CBLV
to hold the requested and current backlight brightness, respectively.

The BCLP variable has range 0..255 while the others have range
0..100. This means the _BCM method has to scale the brightness for BCLP,
and the gfx driver has to scale the requested value back for CBLV. If
the _BQC method uses the CBLV variable (apparently some implementations
do, some don't) for current backlight level reporting, there's room for
rounding errors.

Use DIV_ROUND_UP for scaling back to CBLV to get back to the same values
that were passed to _BCM, presuming the _BCM simply uses bclp = (in *
255) / 100 for scaling to BCLP.

Reference: https://gist.github.com/aaronlu/6314920


Reported-by: default avatarAaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
parent 1c5fd085
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