Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030384AbWJKLa4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:30:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030377AbWJKLa4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:30:56 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:54033 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030349AbWJKLaz (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:30:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:30:42 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for the generic backlight device to the IBM ACPI driver Message-ID: <20061011113042.GA4725@ucw.cz> References: <20061009113235.GA4444@homac.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061009113235.GA4444@homac.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 21 Hi! > Add support for the generic backlight interface below > /sys/class/backlight. The patch keeps the procfs brightness handling for > backward compatibility. For this to archive, the patch adds two generic > functions brightness_get and brightness_set to be used both by the procfs > related and the sysfs related methods. > > Signed-off-by: Holger Macht Looks okay to me. It would be nice to get this in, so that we teach people to use generic interface, and so that we can remove crappy interfaces in future... -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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/