Re: [PATCH 7/7] Who controls brightness functionality: vendor specific or generic video driver

Thomas Renninger
2008-04-16T19:08:36Z

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 21:02 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> Who controls brightness functionality: vendor specific or generic video driver
>
> Depending on the capablity of ACPI graphics devices and whether they implement
> all necessary functions so that the generic ACPI video driver can control
> them, decide at driver load time whether a vendor specific device driver or
> the ACPI video driver should control the brighntess functionality.

This probably clashes with other patches.
I also forgot the eepc driver (and others?) which might also interfere
with the video driver?

Please review and if you like it tell me how this could get integrated
in the easiest way...

Thomas