On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 22:32 +0800, Yu Luming wrote: > >From my understanding, a cute userspace App shouldn't have this kind > of logic: > if (is DELL ) > invoke libsmbios > if (is foo) > invoke libfoo, > if (is bar) > invoke libbar, > .... > else > operate on /sys/class/backlight/ ,.,.. This is what HAL has at the moment[1]. And it's hell to maintain, but works for a lot of users. > It should be: > just write/read file in /sys/class/backlight ,.... That would make things much easier IMO. Richard. [1] http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=blob;h=3ff9284be440a7197b0de9b5f0234761c3397cb1;hb=dbffafacbf7b9143d82547b9eabe61d1a5b8fffc;f=tools/linux/hal-system-lcd-get-brightness-linux - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
