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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c index 5063eadac3ef..5950888ae1d0 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c @@ -518,6 +518,17 @@ void intel_panel_disable_backlight(struct drm_device *dev) struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private; unsigned long flags; + /* + * Do not disable backlight on the vgaswitcheroo path. When switching + * away from i915, the other client may depend on i915 to handle the + * backlight. This will leave the backlight on unnecessarily when + * another client is not activated. + */ + if (dev->switch_power_state == DRM_SWITCH_POWER_CHANGING) { + DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("Skipping backlight disable on vga switch\n"); + return; + } + spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_priv->backlight.lock, flags); dev_priv->backlight.enabled = false; |