On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:59:06AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > > Reading through the patch its: > > 1) Not against any mainline kernel > 2) Not against a recent kernel
I'm sorry, but the patch applay against the latest kernel. Please, try it. > There were a number of backlight class changes just merged into mainline > and you need to sync up any patch against them. My patch uses current backlight class support in the kernel. > As mentioned by others, there is no need to tie the backlight driver > into the framebuffer any more. Have a look at > drivers/video/backlight/corgi_bl.c for an example (its used by PXA > devices). That driver uses the backlight class support as my patch does into pxafb. > I have said elsewhere I will take patches to make corgi_bl a more > generic driver (or maybe create a simple generic backlight driver) along > the lines of what Paul mentioned. I see. I suppose you are the backlight support mantainer, so what do you suggest to do to "make corgi_bl a more generic driver"? I have to rename and modify it? Or just copy it to have backward compatibility and the modify the new file? I should mv backlight directory from the video one? Thanks for your suggestions, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Device Driver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embedded Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX programming phone: +39 349 2432127 - 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/
