linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] backlight: add support for disabling backlights via sysfs

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Message-ID: <20120628211936.GA14286@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:19:36 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: add support for disabling backlights via
 sysfs

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:16:00PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:

> What I still don't understand is your reason for preferring
> driver-specific interfaces for disabling backlights to a single generic
> interface. Are you afraid that allowing it to be done from userspace
> will make it too easy, and as a result quirks will be applied without
> attempting to fix the problem (i.e. the quriking should go through a
> kernel dev to ensure someone tries to fix the problem is made before
> applying a quirk)?

Yup, that. We'll just end up with three billion forum posts telling 
people to add a line to a text file and nobody will ever fix the real 
problem.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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