Re: [PATCH] misc,acpi,backlight: MSI S270 Laptop support

[Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>]

On Tue, 03.10.06 21:37, Dmitry Torokhov (dtor@insightbb.com) wrote:

> > If auto_brightness is 2 we assume that the user doesn't want the
> > module to fiddle with the automatic brightness control
> > automatically. So we don't do it, neither when loading nor when
> > unloading the module. However, if the user wants to fiddle with the
> > setting through sysfs he may do so and we will not reset his changes
> > when unloading the module. This allows the user to do something like
> > this to disable the brightness control without having the the driver
> > loaded the whole time:
> > 
> >   modprobe msi-laptop auto_brightness=2 && echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/msi-laptop-pf/auto_brightness && modprobe -r msi-laptop
> > 
> > If auto_brightness is 1 or 0, we do as requested but reset the control
> > to the bootup default when unloading. (i.e. enable it again)
> 
> Normally drivers clean up after themselves as if they were never loaded,
> taht is why I questioned partial cleanup.

Sure. But "normally" the user wouldn't bother to pass
auto_brightness=2 to the module in which case we *do* "clean up" after
ourselves and reenable automatic brightness control on module unload.

The special behaviour when auto_brightness=2 is passed is merely a
special feature for those who need it. It was useful to me and was
trivial to implement, and hence I did it.

Lennart

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