On Mon, 07 Jan 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:36:23PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Bah, I spoke too soon. Latest round of BIOSes seems to have broken this, > > either that or I completely misunderstood the older AML code. > > > > Rounding to the nearest supplied _BCL value before we call _BCM apparently > > will be needed on thinkpads as well. > > We should just stop exposing the 0-100 range, and instead map it into a > contiguous (smaller) range. I've posted a patch to do that.
Should we? Why? We lose information doing that. Instead of a nice linear 0-100% brightness scale, you are now back to an 8 or 16-level non-linear brightness scale. 0 to 100% is hardware agnostic. You know where the middle backlight level is. You know where the one quarter, and three quarter levels are. You don't know anything about the brightness level anymore, after you compress it to an array index. It is a step backwards IMHO. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
