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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:26:15 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: Yu Luming <luming.yu@...il.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
len.brown@...el.com, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de, gelma@...ma.net,
ismail@...dus.org.tr
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:32:46PM +0800, Yu Luming wrote:
> >From my understanding, a cute userspace App shouldn't have this kind
> of logic:
(snip switching on hardware type)
> It should be:
> just write/read file in /sys/class/backlight ,....
Yup, but to do that on Dell hardware is basically impossible. It'd be
nice if they implemented the ACPI video extension properly for future
hardware.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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