Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Skip the first two elements in the _BCL package

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On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:25:45PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:

> per my previous e-mail, i would recommend that if we export them
> to user-space, that we allow user-space to override them
> and have the kernel simply consume them.  That way things
> would work normall even if user-space is ignorant.

I'm not sure how this would be useful. The kernel doesn't perform the 
ac/dc brightness change - that's handled by either the firmware or 
userspace (depending on _DOS bit 2). We can't provide new values to the 
firmware.

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