From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>,
'Kyungmin Park' <kmpark@infradead.org>,
'Henrique de Moraes Holschuh' <ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kay@vrfy.org, 'Richard Purdie' <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: backlight: Remove backlight sysfs uevent
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:40:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1384990859.20536.4.camel@x230> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131112005628.GA2914@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 22:56 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Jingoo Han wrote:
> > 'thinkpad_acpi.c' uses the 'BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS'.
> > Henrique, can we remove it?
>
> Can't you fix this by rate-limiting, or otherwise adding an attribute that
> backlight devices should set when they need to supress change events?
It looks like this is just to force synchronisation to sysfs when using
the /proc interface? In which case we should probably just kill
the /proc interface.
--
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-20 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-11 23:57 [PATCH] video: backlight: Remove backlight sysfs uevent Kyungmin Park
2013-11-12 0:18 ` Jingoo Han
2013-11-12 0:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-11-12 1:07 ` Kyungmin Park
2013-11-12 1:19 ` Kay Sievers
2013-11-12 2:08 ` Kyungmin Park
2013-11-12 2:22 ` Kay Sievers
2013-11-20 23:40 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-11-21 11:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-11-21 14:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-22 11:36 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-11-22 17:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-24 0:40 ` [ibm-acpi-devel] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-11-24 1:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-24 3:53 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2013-12-16 7:53 ` Andrew Morton
2013-11-12 0:44 ` Kyungmin Park
2013-11-12 0:54 ` Kyungmin Park
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