From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: Add dell-laptop driver
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:03:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081202170348.GA19912@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081202170228.GB9524@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:02:28AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> For the backlight, right now, userspace HAL calls out to libsmbios to
> modify the backlight settings. Will this conflict? Or is it HAL that
> would decide to use either the standard sysfs interface if present,
> falling back to libsmbios if not?
hal will currently provide both interfaces and it'll then be up to
userspace to decide which to use. In future, the libsmbios code can be
deprecated.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-02 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-27 16:33 [PATCH 1/2] dcdbas: Export functionality for use in other drivers Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 16:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] misc: Add dell-laptop driver Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 17:02 ` Matt Domsch
2008-12-02 17:03 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-12-02 19:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-02 20:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 20:22 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-02 20:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 20:16 ` [PATCH 2/2 update] " Matthew Garrett
2008-12-03 12:37 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-12-03 13:01 ` none
2008-12-05 2:05 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-12-03 19:14 ` Len Brown
2008-12-03 19:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-04 9:12 ` Sven Wegener
2008-12-04 11:00 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-12-05 2:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-12-02 3:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] dcdbas: Export functionality for use in other drivers Greg KH
2008-12-02 4:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 17:03 ` Matt Domsch
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