Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:48:46 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | 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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