From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "lists@antonello.org" <lists@antonello.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:40:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071029154009.GA28898@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071028192031.GA11442@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 02:20:31PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> I've had this discussion on lkml before. Short story is, until Dell
> laptops implement the ACPI methods that the backlight API expects, the
> only sane way to do it is to let libsmbios handle it. Moving the
> fairly large and complex libsmbios into the kernel isn't a good idea
> (imho).
My understanding was that the current range supported the ACPI methods.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-29 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-28 16:12 [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver jack
2007-10-28 16:19 ` Matt Domsch
2007-10-28 18:06 ` lists
2007-10-28 19:20 ` Matt Domsch
2007-10-28 23:12 ` lists
2007-10-29 15:40 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-10-30 14:52 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-28 22:30 ` jack
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