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SubjectRe: [PATCH] backlight: add support for disabling backlights via sysfs
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:16:00PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:

> What I still don't understand is your reason for preferring
> driver-specific interfaces for disabling backlights to a single generic
> interface. Are you afraid that allowing it to be done from userspace
> will make it too easy, and as a result quirks will be applied without
> attempting to fix the problem (i.e. the quriking should go through a
> kernel dev to ensure someone tries to fix the problem is made before
> applying a quirk)?

Yup, that. We'll just end up with three billion forum posts telling
people to add a line to a text file and nobody will ever fix the real
problem.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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