On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:37:04PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > If we can't make an interface 100% consistent, we shouldn't pretend that >> > the interface is 100% consistent. We can't, and so we don't. Setting a >> > backlight value of 0 may turn the screen off, and userspace needs to >> > deal with that. >> >> This is insanity; we can never guarantee 100% of anything. >> >> Better is better. And 99% is better than 90% > > An interface that describes reality is better than one that doesn't. But > hey, feel free to disagree and post a patch for the ABI docs. An interface that is useful to the user is better than one that is not. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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
