diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
index 393d218e4a0c..39e2ff2beb29 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ On x86/ACPI devices there can be multiple backlight firmware interfaces:
 register programming by the KMS driver.
 
 To deal with this backlight drivers used on x86/ACPI call
-acpi_video_get_backlight_type() which has heuristics (+quirks) to select
+acpi_video_get_backlight_types() which has heuristics (+quirks) to select
 which backlight interface to use; and backlight drivers which do not match
 the returned type will not register themselves, so that only one backlight
 device gets registered (in a single GPU setup, see below).
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ At the moment this more or less assumes that there will only
 be 1 (internal) panel on a system.
 
 On systems with 2 panels this may be a problem, depending on
-what interface acpi_video_get_backlight_type() selects:
+what interface acpi_video_get_backlight_types() selects:
 
 1. native: in this case the KMS driver is expected to know which backlight
    device belongs to which output so everything should just work.
@@ -708,11 +708,11 @@ Things will break on systems with multiple panels where the 2 panels need
 a different type of control. E.g. one panel needs ACPI video backlight control,
 where as the other is using native backlight control. Currently in this case
 only one of the 2 required backlight devices will get registered, based on
-the acpi_video_get_backlight_type() return value.
+the acpi_video_get_backlight_types() return value.
 
 If this (theoretical) case ever shows up, then supporting this will need some
 work. A possible solution here would be to pass a device and connector-name
-to acpi_video_get_backlight_type() so that it can deal with this.
+to acpi_video_get_backlight_types() so that it can deal with this.
 
 Note in a way we already have a case where userspace sees 2 panels,
 in dual GPU laptop setups with a mux. On those systems we may see
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
index 9cb12e4f06f7..88462f2fb8cc 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -38,19 +38,21 @@
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <acpi/video.h>
 
-static enum acpi_backlight_type acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_undef;
-static enum acpi_backlight_type acpi_backlight_dmi = acpi_backlight_undef;
+#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_UNDEF (-1)
+
+static int acpi_backlight_cmdline = ACPI_BACKLIGHT_UNDEF;
+static int acpi_backlight_dmi = ACPI_BACKLIGHT_UNDEF;
 
 static void acpi_video_parse_cmdline(void)
 {
 	if (!strcmp("vendor", acpi_video_backlight_string))
-		acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_vendor;
+		acpi_backlight_cmdline = ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VENDOR;
 	if (!strcmp("video", acpi_video_backlight_string))
-		acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_video;
+		acpi_backlight_cmdline = ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VIDEO;
 	if (!strcmp("native", acpi_video_backlight_string))
-		acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_native;
+		acpi_backlight_cmdline = ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NATIVE;
 	if (!strcmp("none", acpi_video_backlight_string))
-		acpi_backlight_cmdline = acpi_backlight_none;
+		acpi_backlight_cmdline = 0;
 }
 
 static acpi_status
@@ -109,25 +111,25 @@ static bool nvidia_wmi_ec_supported(void)
  * buggy */
 static int video_detect_force_vendor(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
 {
-	acpi_backlight_dmi = acpi_backlight_vendor;
+	acpi_backlight_dmi = ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VENDOR;
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static int video_detect_force_video(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
 {
-	acpi_backlight_dmi = acpi_backlight_video;
+	acpi_backlight_dmi = ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VIDEO;
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static int video_detect_force_native(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
 {
-	acpi_backlight_dmi = acpi_backlight_native;
+	acpi_backlight_dmi = ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NATIVE;
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static int video_detect_force_none(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
 {
-	acpi_backlight_dmi = acpi_backlight_none;
+	acpi_backlight_dmi = 0;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -672,7 +674,7 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = {
  * Determine which type of backlight interface to use on this system,
  * First check cmdline, then dmi quirks, then do autodetect.
  */
-static enum acpi_backlight_type __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(bool native)
+static int __acpi_video_get_backlight_types(bool native)
 {
 	static DEFINE_MUTEX(init_mutex);
 	static bool nvidia_wmi_ec_present;
@@ -699,19 +701,19 @@ static enum acpi_backlight_type __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(bool native)
 	 * The below heuristics / detection steps are in order of descending
 	 * presedence. The commandline takes presedence over anything else.
 	 */
-	if (acpi_backlight_cmdline != acpi_backlight_undef)
+	if (acpi_backlight_cmdline != ACPI_BACKLIGHT_UNDEF)
 		return acpi_backlight_cmdline;
 
 	/* DMI quirks override any autodetection. */
-	if (acpi_backlight_dmi != acpi_backlight_undef)
+	if (acpi_backlight_dmi != ACPI_BACKLIGHT_UNDEF)
 		return acpi_backlight_dmi;
 
 	/* Special cases such as nvidia_wmi_ec and apple gmux. */
 	if (nvidia_wmi_ec_present)
-		return acpi_backlight_nvidia_wmi_ec;
+		return ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NVIDIA_WMI_EC;
 
 	if (apple_gmux_present())
-		return acpi_backlight_apple_gmux;
+		return ACPI_BACKLIGHT_APPLE_GMUX;
 
 	/* On systems with ACPI video use either native or ACPI video. */
 	if (video_caps & ACPI_VIDEO_BACKLIGHT) {
@@ -725,23 +727,23 @@ static enum acpi_backlight_type __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(bool native)
 		 * is usually not the best choice.
 		 */
 		if (acpi_osi_is_win8() && native_available)
-			return acpi_backlight_native;
+			return ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NATIVE;
 		else
-			return acpi_backlight_video;
+			return ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VIDEO;
 	}
 
 	/* No ACPI video (old hw), use vendor specific fw methods. */
-	return acpi_backlight_vendor;
+	return ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VENDOR;
 }
 
-enum acpi_backlight_type acpi_video_get_backlight_type(void)
+int acpi_video_get_backlight_types(void)
 {
-	return __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(false);
+	return __acpi_video_get_backlight_types(false);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_get_backlight_type);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_get_backlight_types);
 
 bool acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void)
 {
-	return __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(true) == acpi_backlight_native;
+	return !!(__acpi_video_get_backlight_types(true) & ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NATIVE);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_backlight_use_native);
diff --git a/include/acpi/video.h b/include/acpi/video.h
index a565ba27fae0..5b748fdb606e 100644
--- a/include/acpi/video.h
+++ b/include/acpi/video.h
@@ -43,21 +43,11 @@ struct acpi_device;
 #define ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_ZERO_BRIGHTNESS	0x88
 #define ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_DISPLAY_OFF		0x89
 
-enum acpi_backlight_type {
-	acpi_backlight_undef = -1,
-	acpi_backlight_none = 0,
-	acpi_backlight_video,
-	acpi_backlight_vendor,
-	acpi_backlight_native,
-	acpi_backlight_nvidia_wmi_ec,
-	acpi_backlight_apple_gmux,
-};
-
-#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VIDEO BIT(acpi_backlight_video)
-#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VENDOR BIT(acpi_backlight_vendor)
-#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NATIVE BIT(acpi_backlight_native)
-#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NVIDIA_WMI_EC BIT(acpi_backlight_nvidia_wmi_ec)
-#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_APPLE_GMUX BIT(acpi_backlight_apple_gmux)
+#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VIDEO BIT(0)
+#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VENDOR BIT(1)
+#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NATIVE BIT(2)
+#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_NVIDIA_WMI_EC BIT(3)
+#define ACPI_BACKLIGHT_APPLE_GMUX BIT(4)
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO)
 extern int acpi_video_register(void);
@@ -65,7 +55,7 @@ extern void acpi_video_unregister(void);
 extern void acpi_video_register_backlight(void);
 extern int acpi_video_get_edid(struct acpi_device *device, int type,
 			       int device_id, void **edid);
-extern enum acpi_backlight_type acpi_video_get_backlight_type(void);
+extern int acpi_video_get_backlight_types(void);
 extern bool acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void);
 /*
  * Note: The value returned by acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses()
@@ -84,9 +74,9 @@ static inline int acpi_video_get_edid(struct acpi_device *device, int type,
 {
 	return -ENODEV;
 }
-static inline enum acpi_backlight_type acpi_video_get_backlight_type(void)
+static inline int acpi_video_get_backlight_types(void)
 {
-	return acpi_backlight_vendor;
+	return ACPI_BACKLIGHT_VENDOR;
 }
 static inline bool acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void)
 {
@@ -104,9 +94,4 @@ static inline int acpi_video_get_levels(struct acpi_device *device,
 }
 #endif
 
-static inline int acpi_video_get_backlight_types(void)
-{
-	return BIT(acpi_video_get_backlight_type());
-}
-
 #endif
