Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:32:04 +0100 | From | Rodolfo Giometti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] PXAFB: Support for backlight control |
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:26:08PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: k> Why? It's the same, except that it already exists, generic one (not > limited to pxafb), and requires 1 function (too bad that C doesn't > support lambda's):
Ah, ok.
> I sent a bit of criticism for that too ;-). YMMV, but kernel > solutions are just bound to be pretty simple and generic and lack > any "niceties", which you'd likely want to do anyway eventually. For > example, what if you'll want to implement "fade out" effect for > keyboard backlight? Doing it in adhoc manner in kernel? Whereas with > the LCD classdev, you can write generic "fade out" trigger and > attach/detach it from userspace.
I agree. I just wish to add a backlight support for my LCD and minikeypad.
What do you suggest to me in order to accomplish such task?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Rodolfo
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