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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:25:26PM +0800, Jaya Kumar wrote:

> I have some questions then.
> 1. Are Patrick's acpi driver model changes considered to be a more
> final approach that standardize everyone to some sysfs based interface
> to userspace?

I don't believe so. Backlight drivers will still need to register as 
such independently. It's just somewhat orthogonal.

> Ok. I wish I'd known before. I scanned the mailing list before
> mbarking on this to see if any issues were raised with toshiba and
> asus driver code and didn't see anything. FWIW, my powers of mind
> reading only work on Fridays. :-)

I started sending patches a couple of weeks ago, but I need to tidy them 
up to apply against latest -mm.

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