On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:17:52PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > If you think exposing both knobs is non-issue, why are all those patches > > > for other vendor drivers included in the kernel in the first place? > > > > Because in some of those cases, the ACPI and vendor function are > > implemented in different ways that can then get out of sync with each > > other. As a result, you can get garbage information. If the values in > > your two backlight interfaces are always sane, then there's no inherent > > need to hide one of them. > > THE VALUE IN MY TWO BACKLIGHT INTERFACES ARE NOT THE SAME. I said this many > times already. What exactly is not clear in this sentence? Where did I say that they were? You never answered the question I asked - if you set the value in the toshiba specific backlight control to a value that isn't supported via the generic acpi one, what value does the generic acpi one claim to have? -- 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
