On Tue, 08 Jan 2008, Richard Purdie wrote: > > So be it, then. But my request that we get a way to add the information we > > are losing to the backlight class still stands. > > The thing is does this 0-100 value have a use to userspace? Its You can request something like "middle brightness please" (although whether you get middle power comsumption or middle brightness is undetermined in the ACPI spec). > extremely device specific and can't be exported from the class in a > generic way suggesting it should really be something exported by the > driver itself. You still have to ask whether userspace actually needs > this value though? To just cycle brightness up and down, it certainly doesn't need it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - 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
