From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Ignore _BQC object when registering backlight device Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:09:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20080717130931.GA27135@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1216262765.7169.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <487F3EC6.8070406@firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:34442 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755843AbYGQNJg (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:09:36 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487F3EC6.8070406@firstfloor.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Zhao Yakui , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:44:54PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Hmm, but the original patch was reverted. How is this patch better > than the patch that was reverted by Linus? The initial patch would have resulted in the screen brightness being set to minimum (which may be off on some hardware). The new one sets it to maximum brightness if it's not possible to determine the current brightness. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org