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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: brightness control on thinkpad t61p
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:10:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071226141027.6d1a509f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071224073406.GA1018@srcf.ucam.org>

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:34:06 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:00:57AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > and /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen/brightness is no longer present, so
> > my `brightness' script no longer works.  That, my friends, is a regression.
> 
> The thinkpad_acpi brightness interface simply doesn't work correctly on 
> recent Thinkpads. The ACPI interface does, but the currently exported ui 
> to it approximates some sort of horrific loss. I'll try to fix that in 
> the next week or so.

Vice versa for me.  The thinkpad_acpi driver in 2.6.23 _does_ work,
but its interface vanished in 2.6.24-rc5 and the acpi driver does not
work.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-26 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-23  8:00 brightness control on thinkpad t61p Andrew Morton
2007-12-23 12:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-24  7:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-12-24 17:14   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-12-26 22:10   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-12-26 22:23     ` Matthew Garrett
2007-12-27 12:33       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-07  1:36         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-07 19:48           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-08  0:32             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-08  0:45               ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-08 12:06                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-08 12:18                   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-08 12:48                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-08 15:17                       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-08 15:45                       ` Richard Purdie
2008-01-08 15:54                         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-08 16:29                           ` Richard Purdie
2008-01-08 16:49                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-08 16:56                               ` Richard Purdie
2008-01-08 17:36                                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-12-27 12:31     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-12-24 17:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-12-26 22:10   ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-27 13:15     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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