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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:59:13 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> To: Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for the generic backlight device to the IBM ACPI driver On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 13:54 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 11:30 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Looks okay to me. It would be nice to get this in, so that we teach > > people to use generic interface, and so that we can remove crappy > > interfaces in future... > > What about needing a module parameter "enable-old-interface" so by > default be only support the new interface but can support the legacy one > if the user is running old userspace stuff? Insane? not worth the code imo; you're adding code to save some old cruft ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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