Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754450AbZFPIrR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:47:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751322AbZFPIrG (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:47:06 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com ([209.85.220.211]:53321 "EHLO mail-fx0-f211.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751211AbZFPIrF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:47:05 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 824 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:47:05 EDT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=X+Mjc9XqJaMv6afjKW/ZnpZiGx7mv7UMZtDoCVLKyd1RtCApiMpnJ8fyJsjvTkGhkI dj8XwZXf3EtE20SPQrtFVw4a6RfkuBukfpK7MFc2xRe47EBtIMTpgdePNcQMcRoZqeFi ay5oYRbGd00O8Wz5sgfLn9lyX/Kc93l+9u180= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A375914.5050800@tuffmail.co.uk> References: <504BBE2828%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> <71cd59b00906130155u2757ade3t3378685846b80410@mail.gmail.com> <4A337251.7010705@tuffmail.co.uk> <71cd59b00906130306w319c0fc2i376bb03323845b80@mail.gmail.com> <507032D758%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> <9b2b86520906131051t32183554r8208cf886609e09c@mail.gmail.com> <71cd59b00906141226k37b90b9ey7347ed85ec17a17b@mail.gmail.com> <61b223ba0906150109r3a69e98aq949c7f2df5563c6e@mail.gmail.com> <15e53e180906160133j7055536cqe5b9515704fd4d94@mail.gmail.com> <4A375914.5050800@tuffmail.co.uk> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:47:06 +0100 Message-ID: <15e53e180906160147w1fa6282dl50e8e728f067e090@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gpm] [PATCH 2.6.29] eeepc-laptop: report brightness control events via the input layer From: Richard Hughes To: Alan Jenkins Cc: gnome-power-manager-list@gnome.org, acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Corentin Chary , Darren Salt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 14 On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Alan Jenkins wrote: > The driver doesn't. ?As far as we know, none of them do. ?Firmware does. In that case there's a "laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware" hal quirk that turns off all the fancy stuff, and makes the GUI DTRT without guessing. 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/