From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yu Luming Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:45:03 +0800 Message-ID: <200610170145.03779.luming.yu@gmail.com> References: <20060930190810.30b8737f.alessandro.guido@gmail.com> <20061010161012.GA18847@lists.us.dell.com> <200610120028.29617.luming.yu@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:6632 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161035AbWJPRr0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:47:26 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by zeus1.kernel.org (8.13.7/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9GHl57G012133 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:47:18 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n25so2455653pyg for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:45:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200610120028.29617.luming.yu@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Domsch , len.brown@intel.com Cc: Richard Hughes , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Alessandro Guido , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, gelma@gelma.net, ismail@pardus.org.tr > > 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