Hi Hans,
I hope you are well.
Hans de Goede wrote:
I have landed a large(ish) refactor of the ACPI/x86 backlight detection code in the kernel for 6.1. It has come to my attention that this may cause backlight control to stop working on laptops
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please run the following tests:
To me, this looks like Red Hat wanting to externalize QA cost, which I find really unreasonable. (I admit to some bias against Red Hat since my experience with them (via Hans) in another project.)
Sorry for any breakage my backlight refactor may have caused and thank you in advance for taking the time to test this.
I don't know your mandate but if your employer values the coreboot community (retrofit but maybe especially native use cases; I guess that not only retrofit is affected, even if early data suggests so) and wants to ensure that your work doesn't introduce regressions then I expect you to push for inhouse QA resources and reject begging others to do that job, for optics as well as reliability.
Kind regards
//Peter