Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-11-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > this driver implements backlight control on Dell laptops > > which use SMI for changing brightness levels. > > > > The driver is INCOMPLETE since it is unable to probe some required > > parameters > > in order to perform backlight control. Such parameters are found in a Dell > > proprie

Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 02:20:31PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > I've had this discussion on lkml before. Short story is, until Dell > laptops implement the ACPI methods that the backlight API expects, the > only sane way to do it is to let libsmbios handle it. Moving the > fairly large and complex

Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt Domsch wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:06:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Domsch wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:12:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this driver implements backlight control on Dell laptops which use SMI for changing brightness levels. The driver

Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread jack
Fixed style. jacopo --- linux-2.6.23.1/Documentation/dell-laptop.txt1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100 +++ b/Documentation/dell-laptop.txt 2007-10-28 23:25:26.0 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +This driver is EXPERIMENTAL, use it at YOUR OWN RISK. + +BEFORE TRYING THIS DRIVER OUT:

Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:06:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:12:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Hello, > >>this driver implements backlight control on Dell laptops > >>which use SMI for changing brightness levels. > >> > >>The drive

Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt Domsch wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:12:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this driver implements backlight control on Dell laptops which use SMI for changing brightness levels. The driver is INCOMPLETE since it is unable to probe some required parameters in order to perfor

Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver

2007-10-28 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:12:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > this driver implements backlight control on Dell laptops > which use SMI for changing brightness levels. > > The driver is INCOMPLETE since it is unable to probe some required > parameters > in order to perform backlig