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Message-Id: <1231889512.3728.21.camel@johannes>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:31:52 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...nedhand.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: don't default y
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 18:30 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:29:57 +0100, Johannes Berg said:
> > Not all the backlight drivers make sense, especially not the "generic"
> > one that works on some sharp devices. "default n" is also absolutely
> > pointless, and not everybody needs LCD backlight support either.
>
> > config BACKLIGHT_GENERIC
> > tristate "Generic (aka Sharp Corgi) Backlight Driver"
> > depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
> > - default y
> > help
>
> I asked about this one recently - apparently it's planned to be much more
> generic, but the help text still implies it's Sharp-specific.
Even if, it still shouldn't be default y.
johannes
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