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>
diff --git a/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c b/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c
index c18e955..b97ec69 100644
--- a/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c
+++ b/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@
#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;
@@ -1311,7 +1316,10 @@
nvidia_save_vga(par, &par->SavedReg);
pci_set_drvdata(pd, info);
- nvidia_bl_init(par);
+
+ if (backlight)
+ nvidia_bl_init(par);
+
if (register_framebuffer(info) < 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR PFX "error registering nVidia framebuffer\n");
goto err_out_iounmap_fb;
@@ -1408,6 +1416,8 @@
paneltweak = simple_strtoul(this_opt+11, NULL, 0);
} else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "vram:", 5)) {
vram = simple_strtoul(this_opt+5, NULL, 0);
+ } 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;