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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix backlight issues on some Windows 8 systems
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:13:38 +0100
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 06:10:35PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> Do we have any chances to amend this mistake by (gradually) phasing
> out support for the direct keypress forwarding in ACPI? Or at least
> some plans?

We could make the default value of brightness_switch_enabled a config 
variable and encourage distributions to flip their behaviour.

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