On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:02:30PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > > Well, HAL has used it for changing the brightness for the last year or > > > so: /proc/acpi/sony/brightness > > > > > > Although if you use a new enough HAL (CVS), the laptop will be supported > > > via the shiny new backlight class. > > > > great, -mm already has the /sys/class/backlight in place for sony_acpi > > and I suppose the /proc entry can be kept until 2.6.20 is released, i.e. > > just before pushing things for .21. > > > > Len, would you allow it? > > Sure, no problem. > Checking it into my tree with /proc/acpi/sony is > no different than what is in -mm today. > > When we push upstream, however, the /proc/acpi/sony part should be gone, > or at least scheduled for removal. I'd rather avoid pushing mainline something already scheduled for removal. Also, a workaround can eventually be implemented in the userspace tools using /proc/acpi/sony [...] > thanks for stepping forward Mattia, It's me who should thank :) Thanks -- mattia :wq! - 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
