From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
To: schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org
Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Put acpi/backlight code into kernel
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:01:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904200133.GA30287@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908222034.28782.schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:34:28PM +0200, schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org wrote:
> I've tried nouveau, the acpi/backlight support works pretty well, but the
> driver itself is unusable for lambda users, it needs some times...
> So I'm asking if someone could put the backlight code in a kernel module, or
> in the kernel itself, for people to have backlight support even when using
> nvidia driver or nv, or vesa... ???
Not really - drivers that touch registers belonging to other drivers are
generally frowned upon.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-04 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-22 18:34 Put acpi/backlight code into kernel schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg
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2009-09-04 20:01 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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2009-09-13 18:09 ` schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg
[not found] ` <200909132009.37494.schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-13 22:13 ` Matthew Garrett
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2009-09-14 6:36 ` schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg
[not found] ` <200909140836.18074.schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-14 9:02 ` Maarten Maathuis
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2009-09-14 10:00 ` Renato Caldas
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2009-09-14 12:40 ` schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg
[not found] ` <200909141440.32260.schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-14 13:09 ` Renato Caldas
2009-09-19 19:54 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20090919195400.GA4320-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-19 21:36 ` Renato Caldas
[not found] ` <1caff7430909191436k71708d4cs77423417353a47-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-19 22:28 ` Matthew Garrett
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