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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:25:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128012549.GA24166@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080126220045.b93db7c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:00:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Create a new /sys node with a new name which has the new semantics.

The semantics are the same as they always have been - values between 0 
and max_brightness are valid values. If you've made assumptions about 
what max_brightness is, then that's a bug in the userspace application 
rather than a change in the semantics of the interface.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-26  2:03 [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation Matthew Garrett
2008-01-14  1:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-22  8:33 ` Zhang Rui
2008-01-22 11:46   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-22 12:39     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-24 21:44 ` Len Brown
2008-01-27  2:06   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-27  6:00   ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-28  1:25     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-01-28  5:10       ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-28  5:28         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-28 15:51         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-02  3:46         ` Len Brown
2008-02-02 11:30           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-06 10:09             ` Romano Giannetti
2008-02-06 10:09               ` Romano Giannetti
2008-02-02  3:43 ` Len Brown

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