linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devices

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Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:30:13 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	"device-drivers-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org" 
	<device-drivers-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devices

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:25:50 +0000 "Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com> wrote:

> > Is the sysfs API documented anywhere?
> 
> Yes - http://wiki-analog.com/software/driver/linux/adp8870
> I guess you are asking me to write something that goes into linux-2.6.x/Documentation?

That would be nice, please.  Documentation/ABI/, perhaps.

In an ideal world, documentation wouldn't be necessary because all
backlight drivers offer the same (or sufficiently similar) interfaces,
so one generic document describes them all.  I don't know how close
we are to that however.

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