linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] acpi: add backlight support to the sony

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Message-ID: <20061202162352.GD4773@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sat, 2 Dec 2006 16:23:52 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver (v2)

Hi!

> > Looks okay to me. We really want unified interface for backlight.
> 
> Then I request some help to get
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/19792
> merged.
> 
> Without it, the backlight interface becomes annoying on laptops.  Your
> screen will be powered off when you remove the modules providing the
> backlight interface.  This is not consistent with the needs of laptop
> backlight devices, or with the behaviour the drivers had before the
> backlight sysfs support was added.

Just retransmit it to akpm and list, and add acked-by headers with
people who said patch is okay... that included me IIRC.

-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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