From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver (v2)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 16:23:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061202162352.GD4773@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061201194337.GA7773@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Hi!
> > 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.
Just retransmit it to akpm and list, and add acked-by headers with
people who said patch is okay... that included me IIRC.
--
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-02 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-27 16:43 [PATCH] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver (v2) Alessandro Guido
2006-12-01 13:35 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-01 19:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-12-02 16:23 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-12-06 15:25 ` James Simmons
2006-12-06 18:54 ` Pavel Machek
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