From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver (v2) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 16:23:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20061202162352.GD4773@ucw.cz> References: <20061127174328.30e8856e.alessandro.guido@gmail.com> <20061201133520.GC4239@ucw.cz> <20061201194337.GA7773@khazad-dum.debian.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061201194337.GA7773@khazad-dum.debian.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Alessandro Guido , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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.