From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: add support for disabling backlights via sysfs
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:19:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120628211936.GA14286@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120628211600.GB29456@thinkpad-t410>
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:16:00PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> What I still don't understand is your reason for preferring
> driver-specific interfaces for disabling backlights to a single generic
> interface. Are you afraid that allowing it to be done from userspace
> will make it too easy, and as a result quirks will be applied without
> attempting to fix the problem (i.e. the quriking should go through a
> kernel dev to ensure someone tries to fix the problem is made before
> applying a quirk)?
Yup, that. We'll just end up with three billion forum posts telling
people to add a line to a text file and nobody will ever fix the real
problem.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-28 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-28 19:07 [PATCH] backlight: add support for disabling backlights via sysfs Seth Forshee
2012-06-28 19:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-06-28 19:30 ` Seth Forshee
2012-06-28 19:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-06-28 21:16 ` Seth Forshee
2012-06-28 21:19 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-06-29 2:43 ` joeyli
2012-06-29 2:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-06-29 7:18 ` joeyli
2012-06-29 12:24 ` Corentin Chary
2012-06-29 14:11 ` Seth Forshee
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