Re: [PATCH] backlight: add support for disabling backlights viasysfs

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Jun 28 2012 - 22:57:27 EST


On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:43:59AM +0800, joeyli wrote:

> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487382.aspx
>
> In WDDM architecture, in spec p.5, there have a "Monitor" driver to
> check the WDDM driver support brightness DDI, if not, then it will use
> standard acpi method to control brightness.

What's the interaction between GPU drivers and platform drivers? For
instance, on acer systems that have backlight control via WMI, does
Windows use WMI, the GPU driver or ACPI?

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