From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:36:57 +0000 Message-ID: <20061005103657.GA4474@ucw.cz> References: <20060930190810.30b8737f.alessandro.guido@gmail.com> <20061001171912.b7aac1d8.akpm@osdl.org> <20061002003908.GA18707@lists.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:39945 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161018AbWJFOvj (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:51:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061002003908.GA18707@lists.us.dell.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Domsch Cc: Andrew Morton , Alessandro Guido , 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 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 -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.