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

Pavel Machek
2006-10-06T14:51:39Z

Hi!

> > I assume that cute userspace applications for controlling backlight
> > brightness via the generic backlight driver either exist or are in
> > progress? What is the status of that?
>
> For Dell laptops, the dellLcdBrightness app is included in the
> libsmbios-bin package (http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ and
> http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html for the yum repo). It's
> entirely userspace.

Please move it into the kernel where it belongs, and use lcd
brightness subsystem like everyone else.
Pavel
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