On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:25:51AM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 08:59 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:21:14AM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > > > IMO a config variable that compiles out brightness control totally makes > > > more sense (and video, is there any functionality in ThinkPad acpi > > > driver that does not get supported by the video driver?). > > > > No, older Thinkpads don't implement the video extension. It needs to be > > handled at runtime. > > Why? > If you have a recent Lenovo you don't need all this compiled in and do > not set it. Otherwise you add it. If you have a recent Lenovo you don't need to worry about the extra few hundred bytes of code this is going to take. There's no point in microoptimising. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
