drm/i915: quirk asserts controllable backlight presence, overriding VBT

commit c675949e
Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 9 11:31:37 2014 +0300

    drm/i915: do not setup backlight if not available according to VBT

caused a regression on machines with a misconfigured VBT. Add a quirk to
assert the presence of a controllable backlight. Use it to ignore the VBT
backlight presence check during backlight setup.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79813Tested-by: James Duley <jagduley@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michael Mullin <masmullin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.15 only
[danvet: Add cc: stable because the regressing commit is in 3.15.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h

@@ -656,6 +656,7 @@ enum intel_sbi_destination {
 #define QUIRK_PIPEA_FORCE (1<<0)
 #define QUIRK_LVDS_SSC_DISABLE (1<<1)
 #define QUIRK_INVERT_BRIGHTNESS (1<<2)
+#define QUIRK_BACKLIGHT_PRESENT (1<<3)
 
 struct intel_fbdev;
 struct intel_fbc_work;

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c

@@ -11591,6 +11591,14 @@ static void quirk_invert_brightness(struct drm_device *dev)
 	DRM_INFO("applying inverted panel brightness quirk\n");
 }
 
+/* Some VBT's incorrectly indicate no backlight is present */
+static void quirk_backlight_present(struct drm_device *dev)
+{
+	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
+	dev_priv->quirks |= QUIRK_BACKLIGHT_PRESENT;
+	DRM_INFO("applying backlight present quirk\n");
+}
+
 struct intel_quirk {
 	int device;
 	int subsystem_vendor;

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c

@@ -1118,9 +1118,13 @@ int intel_panel_setup_backlight(struct drm_connector *connector)
 	int ret;
 
 	if (!dev_priv->vbt.backlight.present) {
-		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("native backlight control not available per VBT\n");
+		if (dev_priv->quirks & QUIRK_BACKLIGHT_PRESENT) {
+			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("no backlight present per VBT, but present per quirk\n");
+		} else {
+			DRM_DEBUG_KMS("no backlight present per VBT\n");
 			return 0;
 		}
+	}
 
 	/* set level and max in panel struct */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_priv->backlight_lock, flags);