From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
yakui_zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rui.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the first two elements in the _BCL package
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:09:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090204060938.GC28321@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902032304060.5607@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:09:26PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> I should think that it would be prudent to expose the
> ac and dc defaults to user-space -- allowing user-space
> to over-ride them, and then on ac events doing the
> brightness switch in the kernel. That way it will work
> even w/o teaching user-space new tricks.
Woah - it's bad enough that we've got hotkey policy in kernel for ACPI
(and nothing else). Please don't add more policy to the core code - we
leave that up to userspace for a reason.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 3:33 [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the first two elements in the _BCL package yakui_zhao
2009-02-03 3:39 ` Len Brown
2009-02-03 13:56 ` Thomas Renninger
2009-02-04 1:50 ` yakui_zhao
2009-02-04 4:25 ` Len Brown
2009-02-04 6:06 ` yakui_zhao
2009-02-04 6:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-04 4:09 ` Len Brown
2009-02-04 6:09 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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