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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 02:20:31PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:

> I've had this discussion on lkml before. Short story is, until Dell
> laptops implement the ACPI methods that the backlight API expects, the
> only sane way to do it is to let libsmbios handle it.  Moving the
> fairly large and complex libsmbios into the kernel isn't a good idea
> (imho).

My understanding was that the current range supported the ACPI methods.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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