Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:19:36 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [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.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
| |