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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	len.brown@intel.com, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, gelma@gelma.net,
	ismail@pardus.org.tr
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:19:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061001171912.b7aac1d8.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060930190810.30b8737f.alessandro.guido@gmail.com>

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:08:10 +0200
Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@gmail.com> wrote:

> Make the sony_acpi use the backlight subsystem to adjust brightness value
> instead of using the /proc/sony/brightness file.
> (Other settings will still have a /proc/sony/... entry)

umm, OK, but now how do I adjust my screen brightness? ;)

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?

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-02  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-30 17:08 [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver Alessandro Guido
2006-09-30 17:14 ` Alessandro Guido
2006-09-30 17:31   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-02  0:19 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-02  0:39   ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-02  0:48     ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-05 10:36     ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-06 21:17       ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-06 22:44         ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-10 14:32         ` Yu Luming
2006-10-10 14:47           ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-10 16:10             ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-11 16:28               ` Yu Luming
2006-10-16 17:45                 ` Yu Luming
2006-10-25  7:07                   ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-25 17:26                     ` Luming Yu
2006-10-29 17:50                       ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-30 15:49                         ` Luming Yu
2006-10-25 17:27                     ` Luming Yu
2006-10-10 21:26           ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11  3:02             ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-11  3:16               ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11 16:37               ` Yu Luming
2006-10-11  6:59             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-11  7:04               ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11  8:04                 ` Ismail Donmez
2006-10-11  8:12                   ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11 16:31                   ` Yu Luming
2006-10-11 16:45                     ` Ismail Donmez
2006-10-02 10:29   ` Holger Macht
2006-10-02 11:25   ` Alessandro Guido
2006-10-10 15:17     ` Yu Luming
2006-10-10 15:22       ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-10 21:23       ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11  3:20         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-11 16:48           ` Yu Luming
2006-10-11 19:08             ` Dmitry Torokhov

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