On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:11:29AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > So there are basically two values we're ever interested in at a given > point in time. The current ambient light reading and the corresponding > display luminance adjustment. Both of those could just be exposed as an > input device really? The alternative would be hwmon, I guess. > Agreed, userspace should be where policy is decided. Having a standalone > module which connected the two together with a "default" policy might be > acceptable too though? If userspace then wants to handle things it just > makes sure the module is not loaded. You want smoothing even in a default policy, and doing that well might be a bit much for the kernel? -- 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
