From: Mario Schwalbe <schwalbe@inf.tu-dresden.de>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Evan McClain <evan.mcclain@gatech.edu>,
rpurdie@rpsys.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: mbp_nvidia_bl - add five more MacBook variants
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:57:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B97C170.6010809@inf.tu-dresden.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100310154752.GA23027@srcf.ucam.org>
Hi,
On 10.03.2010 16:47, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:45:43PM +0100, Mario Schwalbe wrote:
>
>> Tested using a simple program that writes the ports from userland.
>> And ack: it should probably be renamed to something more reasonable.
>> Something like apple_bl?
>
> Sure. Want to do a patch for that and Kconfig? It probably wants a
> module alias line for backwards compatibility.
Why not? How should the module alias line look like?
MODULE_ALIAS("mbp_nvidia_bl");
Or prefixed with some subsystem identifier? I've never used it before.
Thanks & ciao,
Mario
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-10 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-10 0:20 [PATCH] backlight: mbp_nvidia_bl - add five more MacBook variants Evan McClain
2010-03-10 12:10 ` Mario Schwalbe
2010-03-10 14:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-10 15:45 ` Mario Schwalbe
2010-03-10 15:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-10 15:57 ` Mario Schwalbe [this message]
2010-03-10 22:05 ` Evan McClain
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