On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:28 +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > I have some patches that move the backlight away from using the class > > stuff. The only problem is the patch requires all backlight devices > > to be linked to a real struct device. Right now the acpi backligths are > > not. > > Why would you want to do that? > > The whole point of having this is so that backlights appear as a > standard interface under /sys/class/backlight. > > An example of why standardised interfaces are good would be someone > writing an applet for a handheld to control the backlight brightness. > With the class in place, the applet can easily work with any backlight. > Without it, it has to be written for each backlight. > > So this is a very strong NAK but I'm curious why you'd want to do it...
I CC Greg to explain. The backlight class didn't go away. The way it is handled is different. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
