W dniu 8 grudnia 2009 12:03 użytkownik Michel Dänzer
<mic...@daenzer.net> napisał:
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 11:32 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> 2009/12/8 Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net>:
>> > From: Michel Dänzer <daen...@vmware.com>
>> >
>> > Allows e.g. power management daemons to control the backlight level. 
>> > Inspired
>> > by the corresponding code in radeonfb.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <daen...@vmware.com>
>>
>> I posted something similar but AFAIR got response we don't want this
>> until fixing backlight class design.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not aware of any other available method to control the
> backlight on Apple PowerPC laptops. I'm open for suggestions though how
> this code could be disabled when another method is available.

It's not that we don't want solution you wrote. It's absolutely
wanted. But we need to improve backlight class because we start
register many devices that control same display which drivers us to
inconsistency.

Please, check http://marc.info/?t=125936824500004&r=1&w=2

Hopefully I'll find some time to do that before .33 and we will able
to include our patches then.

-- 
Rafał

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