Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:48:46 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
       rpurdie@rpsys.net, lenb@kernel.org, rui.zhang@intel.com,
       corentincj@iksaif.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Allow drivers to update the core, and
	generate events on changes
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On Tue 2009-07-14 17:06:02, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Certain hardware will send us events when the backlight brightness
> changes. Add a function to update the value in the core, and
> additionally send a uevent so that userspace can pop up appropriate
> UI. The uevents are flagged depending on whether the update originated
> in the kernel or from userspace, making it easier to only display UI
> at the appropriate time.

This adds new kernel API. Should it be documented somewhere?

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