From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the first two elements in the _BCL package Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:09:38 +0000 Message-ID: <20090204060938.GC28321@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1233545621.3715.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200902031456.39680.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:41464 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750892AbZBDGJn (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:09:43 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Thomas Renninger , yakui_zhao , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rui.zhang@intel.com 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