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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:51:45 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Dell laptop driver
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On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:47:52PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> how does this interact with the backlight control done via ACPI ?

Dell's ACPI implementation appears to be implemented on top of this at a 
firmware level, so both are consistent. However, in terms of 
cleanliness, we should wait for Thomas's patches to be merged so this 
driver can disable the backlight support if there's an ACPI backlight 
present. The reason I implemented it is that there's no ACPI backlight 
support on some currently shipping Dells, never mind the older hardware.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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