Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:07:13 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver |
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Hi!
> > > a generic ACPI driver that exports the _BCL and _BCM method > > > implementations via that same interface, so that systems providing > > > that will "just work". drivers/acpi/video.c currently exports this > > > via /proc/acpi/video/$DEVICE/brightness, which isn't the same as > > > /sys/class/backlight. :-( > > > > Yes, I'm working on acpi video driver transition , and have posted a patch > > to user backlight for acpi video driver. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115574087203605&w=2 > > Just updated the backlight and output sysfs support for ACPI Video driver on > bugzilla. If you are interested this, please take a look at > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5749#c18
> [patch 1/3] vidoe sysfs support: Add dev argument for baclight sys dev
Two typos in one line :-).
> [patch 2/3] Add display output class support
I guess this needs Documentation/ so we can tell if user<->kernel interface is sane..
> [patch 3/3] backlight and output sysfs support for acpi video driver
Some whitespace is not okay there... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/
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