From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:25:50 +0000 Message-ID: <20080128012549.GA24166@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20071226020325.GA21099@srcf.ucam.org> <200801241644.49114.lenb@kernel.org> <20080126220045.b93db7c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080126220045.b93db7c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:00:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > - Create a new /sys node with a new name which has the new semantics. The semantics are the same as they always have been - values between 0 and max_brightness are valid values. If you've made assumptions about what max_brightness is, then that's a bug in the userspace application rather than a change in the semantics of the interface. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org