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

Pavel Machek
2006-10-25T07:07:24Z

Hi!

> > > 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

> [patch 1/3] vidoe sysfs support: Add dev argument for baclight sys dev

Two typos in one line :-).

> [patch 2/3] Add display output class support

I guess this needs Documentation/ so we can tell if user<->kernel
interface is sane..

> [patch 3/3] backlight and output sysfs support for acpi video driver

Some whitespace is not okay there...
Pavel
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