sony-laptop: Enable keyboard backlight by default
commitd1e6e65a8d800bc91fb2389a33f2d9d8447bcfbd
authorJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2011 18:32:00 +0000 (2 14:32 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 21 May 2012 16:40:00 +0000 (21 09:40 -0700)
tree4c8114d29f1e3d90e7b1bb7edb59ca3905a7c012
parentf1aadd585872545e03701a91b1f2e9d66a35d5d3
sony-laptop: Enable keyboard backlight by default

commit 6fe6ae56a7cebaebc2e6daa11c423e4692f9b592 upstream.

When the keyboard backlight support was originally added, the commit said
to default it to on with a 10 second timeout.  That actually wasn't the
case, as the default value is commented out for the kbd_backlight parameter.
Because it is a static variable, it gets set to 0 by default without some
other form of initialization.

However, it seems the function to set the value wasn't actually called
immediately, so whatever state the keyboard was in initially would remain.
Then commit df410d522410e67660 was introduced during the 2.6.39 timeframe to
immediately set whatever value was present (as well as attempt to
restore/reset the state on module removal or resume).  That seems to have
now forced the light off immediately when the module is loaded unless
the option kbd_backlight=1 is specified.

Let's enable it by default again (for the first time).  This should solve
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728478

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c