From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Matthias Grimm <matthiasgrimm@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, 407671@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.18: Confusion about Macintosh backlight configuration
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:52:40 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169495560.1582.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070122160518.2c2275bf.matthiasgrimm@users.sourceforge.net>
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:05 +0100, Matthias Grimm wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:33:35 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > > Which solution you prefer is up to you but I would be glad if at least
> > > solution #1 could be realised.
> >
> > For now, at least, what prevents you from having all enabled and have
> > pbbuttonsd still call PMU_IOC_GRAB_BACKLIGHT ?
>
> Nothing. Pbbuttonsd does so by now but this wouldn't help if someone set
> CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT_LEGACY to off.
>
> I check this out with debian, hoping you will find a smart solution for
> this in the future. I think the debian people getting aware of this
> backwards compatibility problem now and there is hope they will fix it
> for etch.
Yes, debian should keep CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT_LEGACY enabled.
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-22 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-20 14:06 kernel 2.6.18: Confusion about Macintosh backlight configuration Matthias Grimm
2007-01-22 3:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-22 15:05 ` Matthias Grimm
2007-01-22 19:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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