Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver

Yu Luming
2006-10-16T17:47:26Z

> > a generic ACPI driver that exports the _BCL and _BCM method
> > implementations via that same interface, so that systems providing
> > that will "just work". drivers/acpi/video.c currently exports this
> > via /proc/acpi/video/$DEVICE/brightness, which isn't the same as
> > /sys/class/backlight. :-(
>
> Yes, I'm working on acpi video driver transition , and have posted a patch
> to user backlight for acpi video driver.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115574087203605&w=2

Just updated the backlight and output sysfs support for ACPI Video driver on
bugzilla. If you are interested this, please take a look at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5749#c18

signed-off-by Luming.yu@gmail.com

[patch 1/3] vidoe sysfs support: Add dev argument for baclight sys dev
[patch 2/3] Add display output class support
[patch 3/3] backlight and output sysfs support for acpi video driver

Thanks,
Luming