Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:02:32 -0500 | From | Matt Domsch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver |
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:26:15PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:32:46PM +0800, Yu Luming wrote: > > > >From my understanding, a cute userspace App shouldn't have this kind > > of logic: > > (snip switching on hardware type) > > > It should be: > > just write/read file in /sys/class/backlight ,.... > > Yup, but to do that on Dell hardware is basically impossible. It'd be > nice if they implemented the ACPI video extension properly for future > hardware.
Yes, our BIOS teams are looking to do exactly that. I wouldn't expect such a change to be propogated back to earlier released systems though.
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