From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] sony-laptop: allow complex per-value input/output validation Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:55:56 -0500 Message-ID: <200702122355.56336.lenb@kernel.org> References: <20070212210107.GA5577@inferi.kami.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:45433 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161018AbXBME5U (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:57:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070212210107.GA5577@inferi.kami.home> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mattia Dongili Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Monday 12 February 2007 16:01, Mattia Dongili wrote: > allows consistency between the sony-laptop > specific 'brightness_default' and the backlight subsystem 0-based > 'brightness'. Why do we need to have "sony-laptop specific 'brightness_default'" -- is that a shortcoming of the backlight subsystem? thanks, -Len