From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Put acpi/backlight code into kernel Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:01:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20090904200133.GA30287@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200908222034.28782.schmirrwurst@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908222034.28782.schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: schmirrwurst-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.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