Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] video: backlight: Remove backlight sysfs uevent

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:36:01AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > The uevent support was initially added to handle systems where pressing 
> > > a hotkey generates an event (good) but the firmware automatically 
> > > changes the brightness (bad). I have absolutely no idea why I added 
> > > BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS - BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_HOTKEY solves the problem I 
> > > was trying to solve. I'm not aware of any userspace that relies on 
> > > BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS.
> > 
> > Well, either we have userspace that rely on the uevents, or we don't. 
> 
> We have userspace that relies on uevents of type 
> BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_HOTKEY. I don't know that we have userspace that relies 
> on uevents of type BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS.

Any OSD application would have to rely on both uevent types, or it is broken
(and to test that, just write a level to sysfs and watch the OSD app fail to
tell you about the backlight level change...)

I don't know about other types of applications, though.  What other type of
applications pay attention to backlight uevents?

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