Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423091AbWJYHHZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:07:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423090AbWJYHHZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:07:25 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:21398 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423083AbWJYHHY (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:07:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:07:13 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Yu Luming Cc: Matt Domsch , len.brown@intel.com, Richard Hughes , Andrew Morton , Alessandro Guido , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, 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: <20061025070713.GF5851@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060930190810.30b8737f.alessandro.guido@gmail.com> <20061010161012.GA18847@lists.us.dell.com> <200610120028.29617.luming.yu@gmail.com> <200610170145.03779.luming.yu@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610170145.03779.luming.yu@gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1458 Lines: 37 Hi! > > > a generic ACPI driver that exports the _BCL and _BCM method > > > implementations via that same interface, so that systems providing > > > that will "just work". drivers/acpi/video.c currently exports this > > > via /proc/acpi/video/$DEVICE/brightness, which isn't the same as > > > /sys/class/backlight. :-( > > > > Yes, I'm working on acpi video driver transition , and have posted a patch > > to user backlight for acpi video driver. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115574087203605&w=2 > > Just updated the backlight and output sysfs support for ACPI Video driver on > bugzilla. If you are interested this, please take a look at > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5749#c18 > [patch 1/3] vidoe sysfs support: Add dev argument for baclight sys dev Two typos in one line :-). > [patch 2/3] Add display output class support I guess this needs Documentation/ so we can tell if user<->kernel interface is sane.. > [patch 3/3] backlight and output sysfs support for acpi video driver Some whitespace is not okay there... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/