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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] new sony_acpi driver
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:44:17 +0200
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To: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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Hi Stelian,

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:00:09PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:
 
> The screen is one of the most important power consumers in a laptop,
> so being able to set its brightness is very important for many users, 
> making this driver useful even if it does only that.

It's more than welcome, but too late for me. My vaio's backlight finally
died after 18 months of daily use at full brightness. Anyway, I strongly
recommend to all vaio users to try your code at least to protect their
eyes (backlight is too intensive) and their display.

Regards
Willy