Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:06:45PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:

> This is total abuse of the backlight class. The idea is that
> cat /sys/class/backlight/ccc/brightness returns the *current* backlight
> brightness. On AC power it should return the AC brightness value and on
> DC power return the DC value.

Unfortunately, the hardware doesn't seem to give us that option. There's 
no obvious way of determining whether we're on AC or DC from the kernel 
without doing very nasty things with ACPI and APM (userspace can work it 
out fairly easily).

Would you be open to adding generic support for displaying separate AC 
and DC brightnesses? Making it driver specific leaves the potential for
inconsistencies.
 
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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