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 10:32:46PM +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.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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