On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Umair Khan <omerjerk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been thinking of writing a patch a lot lately. But with my level of > knowledge I cannot do something groundbreaking. > One thing which came to my mind is to write a patch related to the driver > which controls the brightness of the display. > What happens now is I lower down the brightness, and when I restart the > laptop, it's back to the highest amount. > I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on top of Linux Kernel 4.2 rc3+. > I was thinking of writing the current brightness to sysfs and read that > value when the driver is started during the boot. > > So, my question is that is it already implemented in the driver and just > that Ubuntu resets it on every reboot from userspace ? > And if it is not implemented, is it worth implementing ? I don't know whether its implemented or not, but kernel looks like the wrong place to solve this. This is something that should be done in userspace _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
