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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
	"corentincj@iksaif.net" <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Allow drivers to update the core, and generate events on changes
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:05:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090729150524.GD1534@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090716024057.GA2461@srcf.ucam.org>


> > > You want smoothing even in a default policy, and doing that well might 
> > > be a bit much for the kernel?
> > > 
> > sorry, I don't understand.
> > do you mean that there should be a default policy in the kernel?
> 
> No, I mean that the only default policy you could reasonably have in the 
> kernel would be tying the backlight directly to the ALS. And that sucks. 
> You need some degree of smoothing, and that's a job better left to 
> userspace.

How would that be done? Wake up userspace 100times a second so it can
read an integer and ardd it to running average?

Is ALS device stupid sensor, or can it do some smoothing/watermarks
itself?
									Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-29 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-13 20:41 [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Allow drivers to update the core, and generate events on changes Matthew Garrett
2009-07-13 20:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] ACPI: Update the backlight state when we change brightness Matthew Garrett
2009-07-13 20:41   ` [PATCH 3/3] eeepc-laptop: " Matthew Garrett
2009-07-14  0:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Allow drivers to update the core, and generate events on changes ykzhao
2009-07-14  1:53   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-14 15:48     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-14 10:30 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-07-14 13:21   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-14 15:54     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-07-14 12:29 ` Richard Purdie
2009-07-14 12:55   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-15  7:55   ` Zhang Rui
2009-07-15  8:22     ` Richard Purdie
2009-07-15  8:38       ` Zhang Rui
2009-07-15  9:11         ` Richard Purdie
2009-07-15 13:58           ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-16  2:39             ` Zhang Rui
2009-07-16  2:40               ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-29 15:05                 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-07-29 15:20                   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-29 15:31                     ` Richard Purdie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-14 16:06 Matthew Garrett
2009-07-16 21:33 ` Michal Schmidt
2009-07-18 11:48 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-19 23:24 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-09-20  4:15   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-20 11:16     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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