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drm/i915: fix backlight after resume on 855gm



Some 855gm models (at least ThinkPad X40) regressed because of

commit b0cd324f
Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 12 16:25:43 2014 +0200

    drm/i915: don't save/restore backlight hist ctl registers

which tried to make our driver more robust by not blindly saving and
restoring registers, but it failed to take into account

commit 0eb96d6e
Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 14 12:33:41 2009 -0700

    drm/i915: save/restore BLC histogram control reg across suspend/resume

Fix the regression by enabling hist ctl on gen2.

v2: Improved the comment.

v3: Improved the comment, again.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarPhilipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>
References: http://mid.gmane.org/20150623222648.GD12335@acheron


Fixes: b0cd324f ("drm/i915: don't save/restore backlight hist ctl registers")
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
parent 8b572a42
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