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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic in-kernel AC status
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:19:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060210131914.GA7609@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060210131337.GD11740@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu>

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:13:38PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:

> Also, doing things differently when on AC power smells like a policy
> decision, and AFAIK policy handling is not wanted in the kernel.

Backlight drivers are supposed to return the current brightness. With 
some hardware, the only way to do that requires knowing whether the 
system is on AC or not.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-10 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-08 12:57 [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic in-kernel AC status Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 13:03 ` [PATCH, RFC] [2/3] ACPI support for generic " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 13:04 ` [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 13:05   ` [PATCH, RFC] [3/3] APM support for generic " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 16:58   ` [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic " Greg KH
2006-02-08 17:08     ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 17:16       ` Greg KH
2006-02-08 17:49         ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-09  5:46           ` Greg KH
2006-02-09  8:53       ` Gabor Gombas
2006-02-10 12:21         ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10 13:13           ` Gabor Gombas
2006-02-10 13:19             ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2006-02-10 13:54             ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10 13:56               ` Gabor Gombas
2006-02-08 22:25   ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2006-02-10 12:21     ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10  8:06 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-02-10 12:19   ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10 12:32     ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-02-10 13:46       ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-12 10:17         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-12 11:27           ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-14 17:44     ` Thomas Renninger
2006-02-14 20:17       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-02-15 12:36         ` Thomas Renninger
2006-02-15 12:47           ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-15 15:04             ` Thomas Renninger
2006-02-16 22:44           ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-16 22:39         ` Pavel Machek

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