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SubjectRe: Backlight device class redesign
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Rafa?? Mi??ecki wrote:
> > Meanwhile, I'd like a LOT to know how I could parent the backlight device I
> > export in a platform driver to the correct PCI or ACPI device for the main
> > GPU...
>
> Is actually "parent" used for something? I can see it used in many
> modules, but not sure where we use that pointer (if we do).

For one, you get symlinks in sysfs, which would let userspace know what
backlight is related to what PCI/video/whatever device.

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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh


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