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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: yakui_zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the first two elements in the _BCL package
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:08:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090204060820.GB28321@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902032319280.5607@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:25:45PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:

> per my previous e-mail, i would recommend that if we export them
> to user-space, that we allow user-space to override them
> and have the kernel simply consume them.  That way things
> would work normall even if user-space is ignorant.

I'm not sure how this would be useful. The kernel doesn't perform the 
ac/dc brightness change - that's handled by either the firmware or 
userspace (depending on _DOS bit 2). We can't provide new values to the 
firmware.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02  3:33 [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the first two elements in the _BCL package yakui_zhao
2009-02-03  3:39 ` Len Brown
2009-02-03 13:56 ` Thomas Renninger
2009-02-04  1:50   ` yakui_zhao
2009-02-04  4:25     ` Len Brown
2009-02-04  6:06       ` yakui_zhao
2009-02-04  6:08       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-02-04  4:09   ` Len Brown
2009-02-04  6:09     ` Matthew Garrett

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