Re: [PATCH] backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devices

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 21 2011 - 04:30:43 EST


On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:25:50 +0000 "Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Is the sysfs API documented anywhere?
>
> Yes - http://wiki-analog.com/software/driver/linux/adp8870
> I guess you are asking me to write something that goes into linux-2.6.x/Documentation?

That would be nice, please. Documentation/ABI/, perhaps.

In an ideal world, documentation wouldn't be necessary because all
backlight drivers offer the same (or sufficiently similar) interfaces,
so one generic document describes them all. I don't know how close
we are to that however.

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