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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	yakui_zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rui.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the first two elements in the _BCL package
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:09:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090204060938.GC28321@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902032304060.5607@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:09:26PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:

> I should think that it would be prudent to expose the
> ac and dc defaults to user-space -- allowing user-space
> to over-ride them, and then on ac events doing the
> brightness switch in the kernel.  That way it will work
> even w/o teaching user-space new tricks.

Woah - it's bad enough that we've got hotkey policy in kernel for ACPI 
(and nothing else). Please don't add more policy to the core code - we 
leave that up to userspace for a reason.

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

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04  6:09 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
2009-02-04  4:09   ` Len Brown
2009-02-04  6:09     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]

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