On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:58:09AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > - exposing two knobs for the *same* thing confuses user level tools; you never > know which one is used and they compete behind your back How do they compete? As I said, the implementations appear to be implemented on top of the same underlying functionality. The problem with providing both vendor and ACPI functionality comes when both use different mechanisms for changing the backlight and so can get out of sync with each other. Are there any machines supported by toshiba_acpi where this is the case? -- 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
