Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Add drm module soft dependency

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Jun 07 2023 - 00:33:34 EST


On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 11:43:31AM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> From: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" <acelan.kao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> dell_laptop is somethines loaded before nvidia driver, causing it to
> create its own backlight interface before native backlight is set.
> This results in the presence of 2 backlight interfaces in sysfs and
> leads to the backlight can't be adjusted.

It seems like this approach would still be broken if the nvidia module
isn't available at the time the dell module is loaded?