Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754823Ab3ITNCn (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:02:43 -0400 Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.3]:60546 "EHLO smtp3-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754680Ab3ITNCl (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:02:41 -0400 Message-ID: <1379682099.9746.5.camel@oban> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ACPI / video: seperate backlight control and event interface From: Yves-Alexis Perez To: Aaron Lu Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Vetter , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Matthew Garrett , Seth Forshee , Lee Chun-Yi , Richard Purdie , Igor Gnatenko , Felipe Contreras , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Jani Nikula Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:01:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1379409796-29350-3-git-send-email-aaron.lu@intel.com> References: <1379409796-29350-1-git-send-email-aaron.lu@intel.com> <1379409796-29350-3-git-send-email-aaron.lu@intel.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-f7eTPuUuyk+b0QmhFQTv" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5-2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1922 Lines: 49 --=-f7eTPuUuyk+b0QmhFQTv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On mar., 2013-09-17 at 17:23 +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > The backlight control and event delivery functionality provided by > ACPI > video module is mixed together and registered all during video device > enumeration time. As a result, the two functionality are also removed > together on module unload time or by the acpi_video_unregister > function. > The two functionalities are actually independent and one may be useful > while the other one may be broken, so it is desirable to seperate the > two functionalities such that it is clear and easy to disable one > functionality without affecting the other one. >=20 > APIs to selectively remove backlight control interface and/or event > delivery functionality can be easily added once needed. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu Tested-by: Yves-Alexis Perez --=20 Yves-Alexis --=-f7eTPuUuyk+b0QmhFQTv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABCAAGBQJSPEczAAoJEG3bU/KmdcClY8AIAKONX1Vy4r/BxLo1L6CMqbt2 S1d4Mdkhua5mejGYSdYLWdQku554nJpnQ4uSWAHwuJNW21i4GqNhqsNzlADYIYba KxHtQnL8K2GOaVLMQHf+2O4i1lmWc/yvvOcLGEktGnUHYYCxOJBCTwCuzHuFG14E XUngsESoWgBrrJGrzL/k9i8CmdtzjMase9wJOU73rT1ujme746qYyF8rLfw7BFOt 2l+PLBwNvTNslu71s5WnUnG/si7HpanSPZhoR/60bbxUNUx/KFhHVFQV4s8EvC+J yIK50jfNnx+o5iO9lVyLIzcDRzlhDqVvsvMRQXEyK+j5y1/9cSX/LWjmN5ya+Go= =juvk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-f7eTPuUuyk+b0QmhFQTv-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/