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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:20:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060207172024.GA6431@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35C9A9D68AB3FA4AB63692802656D9EC9277C0@ausx3mps303.aus.amer.dell.com>

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:34:31AM -0600, Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com wrote:
> You can get and set laptop brighness on Dell with the proper SMI call.

Oh, heavens. Could you people (and here I include pretty much everyone 
who manufactures laptops) please (please!) just implement the ACPI video 
extension? We're going to end up having to ship a 200K library for 
each and every laptop manufacturer who's decided to implement basic 
functionality in a proprietary manner, and it's going to make me cry.

(Which SMI do I need for brightness control? The libsmbios docs seem to 
be remarkably quiet on what functionality is actually available, and I'm 
not keen on calling things randomly :))

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-07 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-07 16:34 [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-07 17:20 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2006-02-12 17:26 ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-20 16:45 Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-20 16:53 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-23  5:17   ` Michael E Brown
2006-02-07 17:23 Michael_E_Brown
2006-02-07  3:43 Michael E Brown
2006-02-07  4:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:15 [PATCH] Make DMI code store chassis type Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:18 ` [PATCH] Add HP laptop backlight brightness display Matthew Garrett
2006-02-06 19:19   ` [PATCH] Add Dell " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07  0:37     ` [PATCH] [RESEND] " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07  3:37       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-07 12:32         ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 13:06           ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-07 13:23             ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 13:37               ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-07 13:55                 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-07 14:54                   ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-08  9:06                   ` Pavel Machek

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