Werner Almesberger wrote: > Mike (mwester) wrote: >> In practice, compromise is necessary. Can we at least let the kernel >> bring the backlight up to a level that would allow the user to see vague >> outlines of something on the screen? Or failing that, can we make the >> backlight level on resume configurable in some way? > > If you need this, why not set the backlight to "dim" instead of "off" > before requesting the suspend ?
Because I don't control the source code for the user-space apps that put it into suspend in the first place. Sure, it's easy - and arguably correct - to punt on the whole problem, and make user-space deal with it. So what then, when the user reports that "the phone randomly powers off"? Do the hardware/kernel folks just tell the user to go away, and bother the application folks? > The secret about successful kernel programming is to do as little as > possible in the kernel :-) The secret to customer satisfaction is proactively thinking about what might go wrong, and providing the user with information that might be helpful. Sometimes that goes in a different direction from expending minimal effort in the kernel. > - Werner Mike (mwester)
