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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-11-19 08:38:23 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-11-19 08:38:23 +0100
commit198d6ba4d7f48c94f990f4604f0b3d73925e0ded (patch)
tree56bbdf8ba2553c23c8099da9344a8f1d1aba97ab /drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c
parentnet: sctp should update its inuse counter (diff)
parentMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c fs/cifs/connect.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c b/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c
index 06f07e19dc70..7bcb81002dcf 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c
@@ -1038,7 +1038,11 @@ static int sony_nc_add(struct acpi_device *device)
goto outinput;
}
- if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(sony_nc_acpi_handle, "GBRT", &handle))) {
+ if (!acpi_video_backlight_support()) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO DRV_PFX "Sony: Brightness ignored, must be "
+ "controlled by ACPI video driver\n");
+ } else if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(sony_nc_acpi_handle, "GBRT",
+ &handle))) {
sony_backlight_device = backlight_device_register("sony", NULL,
NULL,
&sony_backlight_ops);