Re: [PATCH] Add support for the generic backlight device to theIBM ACPI driver

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 11:30 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Looks okay to me. It would be nice to get this in, so that we teach
> people to use generic interface, and so that we can remove crappy
> interfaces in future...

What about needing a module parameter "enable-old-interface" so by
default be only support the new interface but can support the legacy one
if the user is running old userspace stuff? Insane?

Richard.


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