linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros

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Message-Id: <1213045171.5026.64.camel@dax.rpnet.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:59:31 +0100
From:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook
	Pros

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 01:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros don't appear to handle backlight control 
> through the graphics card registers or ACPI, but instead trigger changes 
> via SMI calls. This driver registers a generic backlight device that 
> lets existing userspace deal with it. Code derived from Julien Blache's 
> Pommed application.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>

Queued in the backlight tree, thanks.

Richard

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