From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver (v2) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:37 -0200 Message-ID: <20061201194337.GA7773@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20061127174328.30e8856e.alessandro.guido@gmail.com> <20061201133520.GC4239@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:7878 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936524AbWLAToR (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:44:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061201133520.GC4239@ucw.cz> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Alessandro Guido , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com On Fri, 01 Dec 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: > Looks okay to me. We really want unified interface for backlight. Then I request some help to get http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/19792 merged. Without it, the backlight interface becomes annoying on laptops. Your screen will be powered off when you remove the modules providing the backlight interface. This is not consistent with the needs of laptop backlight devices, or with the behaviour the drivers had before the backlight sysfs support was added. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh