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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 19:59:01 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yu Luming <luming.yu@...il.com>, Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@...il.com> Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 > > > > > video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register.patch > > > > > > > > Does this patch update the fbdev drivers? > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/broken-out/video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register.patch > > > > > > Seems not. Should it? > > > > Yes. Its bizarre. > > It is. > > > The drivers compile with the wrong method prototype. > > No, it doesn't get compiled at all. > > CONFIG_FB_ATY128_BACKLIGHT has no Kconfig record at all. > > CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_BACKLIGHT has no Kconfig record at all. > > CONFIG_FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT has no Kconfig record at all. > > So this is all dead code. There is no way to enable any of it within the > config system. Ug. Kconfig in drivers/video has all the above drivers enable the backlight only if PMAC_BACKLIGHT is set. The problem is backlight is after the framebuffer. We should move the backlight menu before the framebuffer configuration. - 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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