Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:36:57 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
       len.brown@intel.com, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, gelma@gelma.net,
       ismail@pardus.org.tr
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver
Message-ID: <20061005103657.GA4474@ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > I assume that cute userspace applications for controlling backlight
> > brightness via the generic backlight driver either exist or are in
> > progress?  What is the status of that?
> 
> For Dell laptops, the dellLcdBrightness app is included in the
> libsmbios-bin package (http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ and
> http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html for the yum repo).  It's
> entirely userspace.

Please move it into the kernel where it belongs, and use lcd
brightness subsystem like everyone else.
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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