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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, cezary.jackiewicz@gmail.com,
	aystarik@gmail.com, hmh@hmh.eng.br, rpurdie@rpsys.net
Subject: Re: [patch 06/11] misc,acpi,backlight: compal Laptop Extras
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:55:20 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806101253390.14381@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806092322.m59NMNs9013970@imap1.linux-foundation.org>



On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:

> From: Cezary Jackiewicz <cezary.jackiewicz@gmail.com>
> 
> This is driver for Compal Laptop: FL90/IFL90, based on MSI driver.
> 
> This driver exports a few files in /sys/devices/platform/compal-laptop/:
>  lcd_level - screen brightness: contains a single integer in the range 0..7 (rw)

why is it a good idea to implement this platform specific lcd_level API
and at the same time implement the generic backlight API?

thanks,
-Len

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-09 23:22 [patch 06/11] misc,acpi,backlight: compal Laptop Extras akpm
2008-06-10 16:55 ` Len Brown [this message]
2008-06-10 21:28   ` Richard Purdie
2008-06-10 21:51     ` Cezary Jackiewicz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-14 23:09 akpm

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