Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:51:45 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add Dell laptop driver |
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On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:47:52PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> how does this interact with the backlight control done via ACPI ?
Dell's ACPI implementation appears to be implemented on top of this at a firmware level, so both are consistent. However, in terms of cleanliness, we should wait for Thomas's patches to be merged so this driver can disable the backlight support if there's an ACPI backlight present. The reason I implemented it is that there's no ACPI backlight support on some currently shipping Dells, never mind the older hardware.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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