> > > You want smoothing even in a default policy, and doing that well might > > > be a bit much for the kernel? > > > > > sorry, I don't understand. > > do you mean that there should be a default policy in the kernel? > > No, I mean that the only default policy you could reasonably have in the > kernel would be tying the backlight directly to the ALS. And that sucks. > You need some degree of smoothing, and that's a job better left to > userspace. How would that be done? Wake up userspace 100times a second so it can read an integer and ardd it to running average? Is ALS device stupid sensor, or can it do some smoothing/watermarks itself? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
