Re: [PATCH 1/2] video: always update the brightness when poking "brightness"

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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 09:22:20AM +0800, Zhao Yakui wrote:

> Sometimes the brightness will be changed by BIOS and there is no
> notification event. In such case the props.brightness can't be updated.
> If we want to update the brightness, the request will have no effect.

In the common case (ie, ACPI) clients should read from actual_brightness 
and set via brightness. The distinction exists for precisely this kind 
of eventuality.

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