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Message-ID: <4B97BEA7.8010804@inf.tu-dresden.de>
Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:45:43 +0100
From:	Mario Schwalbe <schwalbe@....tu-dresden.de>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC:	Evan McClain <evan.mcclain@...ech.edu>, rpurdie@...ys.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: mbp_nvidia_bl - add five more MacBook	variants

Hi,

On 10.03.2010 15:24, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Acked in principle, but at this point it probably needs to be renamed
> and have the Kconfig entry updated if it's going to be used for other
> hardware. Does it actually work on non-nvidia Macs?

I assume you mean non-Nvidia chipset. Yes, it works, because the driver
uses the firmware interface. This is what Apple's Windows (bootcamp) drivers
do as well.

Tested using a simple program that writes the ports from userland.
And ack: it should probably be renamed to something more reasonable.
Something like apple_bl?

ciao,
Mario
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