From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael_e_brown@dell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Dell laptop driver
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:51:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080816205145.GA4498@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080816134752.426bdd8a@infradead.org>
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:47:52PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> how does this interact with the backlight control done via ACPI ?
Dell's ACPI implementation appears to be implemented on top of this at a
firmware level, so both are consistent. However, in terms of
cleanliness, we should wait for Thomas's patches to be merged so this
driver can disable the backlight support if there's an ACPI backlight
present. The reason I implemented it is that there's no ACPI backlight
support on some currently shipping Dells, never mind the older hardware.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-16 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-16 20:24 [PATCH 0/2] Add Dell laptop driver Matthew Garrett
2008-08-16 20:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] Export SMI call functionality from dcdbas driver Matthew Garrett
2008-08-16 20:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add Dell laptop driver Matthew Garrett
2008-08-16 20:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-16 20:51 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-08-20 6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-20 10:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-09-18 20:22 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Michael E Brown
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2008-08-16 23:17 [PATCH 2/2] " Parag Warudkar
2008-08-16 23:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-16 23:31 ` Parag Warudkar
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