Re: Backlight device class redesign

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:01:14PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:

> IMO, we should create one device for one display.
> For example, device /sys/class/backlight/panel0 is created the first
> time a backlight_ops for this display is registered.

For anything other than the simple case (one display per machine), how 
do you know whether the firmware, platform and gpu are referring to the 
same display device?

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