Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760657AbYFIVYN (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:24:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754664AbYFIVX6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:23:58 -0400 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([194.106.48.114]:60841 "EHLO tim.rpsys.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753491AbYFIVX5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:23:57 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1456 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:23:56 EDT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros From: Richard Purdie To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Lennart Poettering , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080609000554.GA28782@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20080607025436.GB24254@srcf.ucam.org> <20080608183255.GB3580@tango.0pointer.de> <20080609000554.GA28782@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:59:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1213045171.5026.64.camel@dax.rpnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 18 On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 01:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros don't appear to handle backlight control > through the graphics card registers or ACPI, but instead trigger changes > via SMI calls. This driver registers a generic backlight device that > lets existing userspace deal with it. Code derived from Julien Blache's > Pommed application. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Queued in the backlight tree, thanks. 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/