Re: Put acpi/backlight code into kernel

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Thank you for your answer,

You said this kind of code doesn't belong in the nouveau driver, but backlight 
support have already been added in it, and it works well ...

So I need to find the person in charge of the sony platform driver, and ask him 
to take the nouveau backlight code.. would that work ?
Where are the platform driver hosted, who do I need to ask then ?

Thanks
Sebastien

Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 12:00:59, Renato Caldas a écrit :
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 
wrote:
> > Find someone who wants to create and maintain it.
> 
> This kind of code doesn't belong in the nouveau driver, as you
> probably already know.
> 
> But there are things called "platform drivers" that support all those
> non-standard features you may find on laptops, like radio switches,
> leds, ... and backlight. There is one such driver for my Asus laptop,
> which is called "asus-laptop".
> 
> So what you want is a platform driver for your hardware. Now you need
> to either find someone who can code it, or do it yourself. It
> shouldn't be that difficult if working code is already available.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Renato
>