diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osi.c b/drivers/acpi/osi.c
index df9328c850bd..956f7fe403a3 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/osi.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/osi.c
@@ -443,6 +443,77 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id acpi_osi_dmi_table[] __initconst = {
 		},
 	},
 
+	/*
+	 * The following Lenovo models have a broken workaround in the
+	 * acpi_video backlight implementation to meet the Windows 8
+	 * requirement of 101 backlight levels. Reverting to pre-Win8
+	 * behavior fixes the problem.
+	 */
+	{
+	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
+	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad L430",
+	.matches = {
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad L430"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
+	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad T430",
+	.matches = {
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad T430"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
+	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad T430s",
+	.matches = {
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad T430s"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
+	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad T530",
+	.matches = {
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad T530"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
+	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad W530",
+	.matches = {
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad W530"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
+	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon",
+	.matches = {
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad X1 Carbon"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
+	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad X230",
+	.matches = {
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad X230"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
+	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E330",
+	.matches = {
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
+		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad Edge E330"),
+		},
+	},
+
 	/*
 	 * BIOS invocation of _OSI(Linux) is almost always a BIOS bug.
 	 * Linux ignores it, except for the machines enumerated below.