From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965202AbXBVBuh (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:50:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965211AbXBVBug (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:50:36 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.227]:46437 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965202AbXBVBuf (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:50:35 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=Owf+ukXXCZImppWp2sIQhdhLrMYlcvZAhrLA2WY7dEKqZkJpTwIwcdEyiWRcC9BOE6pYQRmOOvEo6ESXy7eL1wGP5b2iGFcneznHnlQ2ni+ObquNuh+qI61kZDbF4hw8m+Xg0FONzS1eecF9vgrX3MAG1WHr2hNTMWZrfzqXSSM= Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] From: "Antonino A. Daplas" To: James Simmons Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1172106234.4217.50.camel@daplas> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:53:26 +0800 Message-Id: <1172109206.4217.61.camel@daplas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:35 +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:23 +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > If this is an attempt to consolidate, I don't see the 'brightness' > > hook of backlight and lcd. > > > > If this is not a consolidation, why don't we just extend the lcd class? > > Its is a replacement for lcd. Is brightness universal for all display > types? Well, if you're adding a universal interface, you need hooks for more than that (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, tint, etc). Then we just let the drivers cherry pick from the list on what it's going to support. Tony