Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161046AbWJKMyW (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:54:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161049AbWJKMyW (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:54:22 -0400 Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.214.236]:53831 "EHLO hu-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161048AbWJKMyV (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:54:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=KvlD+ysgc3DdIRimYYQnbjENRUq34iENOno82YNQC1uyoF0+ftIuczOcIcI4DheNs8yiXxriZV58hB+ZO5Un/PezCdrkczxseUx5rUBagXvDraC2YMxZgfB7EpuJIrc4888gMwPjEdVMBU6/JbgzHIDydAzjuGrNSrIUTG4HvQs= Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for the generic backlight device to the IBM ACPI driver From: Richard Hughes To: Pavel Machek Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com In-Reply-To: <20061011113042.GA4725@ucw.cz> References: <20061009113235.GA4444@homac.suse.de> <20061011113042.GA4725@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:54:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1160571257.4936.7.camel@hughsie-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 17 On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 11:30 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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... What about needing a module parameter "enable-old-interface" so by default be only support the new interface but can support the legacy one if the user is running old userspace stuff? Insane? Richard. - 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/