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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] drm/i915: Allow specifying a minimum brightness level for sysfs control.
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:02:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130326170203.GA23549@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364298525-4337-1-git-send-email-dannybaumann@web.de>

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:48:44PM +0100, Danny Baumann wrote:
> This patch makes the behaviour of the intel_backlight backlight device
> consistent to e.g. acpi_videoX: When writing the value 0, the set brightness
> makes the panel content barely readable instead of turning the backlight off.
> This matches the expectations of user space (e.g. kde-workspace or the Intel
> X11 driver), which expects that it can use intel_backlight as a drop-in
> replacement for acpi_videoX.

I'm not quite clear what you mean here. The behaviour of "0" isn't well 
defined for the ACPI backlight driver - it's perfectly reasonable for it 
to turn the backlight off entirely. Anything assuming that "0" is still 
visible is broken.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-26 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-26 11:48 [PATCH 0/1] drm/i915: Allow specifying a minimum brightness level for sysfs control Danny Baumann
2013-03-26 11:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Danny Baumann
2013-03-26 15:13   ` Daniel Vetter
2013-03-26 15:20     ` Chris Wilson
2013-03-26 17:04       ` Danny Baumann
2013-03-26 16:55     ` Danny Baumann
2013-03-26 17:02 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-03-26 17:10   ` [PATCH 0/1] " Danny Baumann
2013-03-26 17:21     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-03-27 11:56       ` Danny Baumann
2013-03-27 12:35         ` Alex Deucher
2013-03-27 12:56           ` Danny Baumann
2013-03-27 13:06             ` Alex Deucher
2013-03-27 15:10         ` Matthew Garrett

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