Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:28 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> I have some patches that move the backlight away from using the class 
> stuff. The only problem is the patch requires all backlight devices 
> to be linked to a real struct device. Right now the acpi backligths are 
> not.

Why would you want to do that?

The whole point of having this is so that backlights appear as a
standard interface under /sys/class/backlight.

An example of why standardised interfaces are good would be someone
writing an applet for a handheld to control the backlight brightness.
With the class in place, the applet can easily work with any backlight.
Without it, it has to be written for each backlight.

So this is a very strong NAK but I'm curious why you'd want to do it...

Richard


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