On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:45 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > Store video capabilities of BIOS globally at ACPI parse time and export it. > > This is for vendor specific vs video driver so that they can distinguish who > should take care of video/brightness control. > The bits are chosen in a way that video can handle the ability gracefully > if all the checked functions are there... > > Vendor specific modules must check on that bits and take their hands off > brightness/video control when set, as they are then served by the video > driver. > > This hasn't been tested yet. It's more a proposal whether this is the way > to go... > Would be great if someone could give it a test if accepted, I will test > this also as soon as some positive feedback is popping up. > > + success: > + acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_METHOD, device->handle, ACPI_UINT32_MAX, > + acpi_brighntess_cap_match, NULL, NULL); This has been tested now and and it works fine if ACPI_TYPE_METHOD is replaced with ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE. Oh, Len was not in CC on the original post..: Please tell me if you like to take it and if, whether you replace this METHOD <-> DEVICE manually or if you like to have it reposted.
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