Re: Macbook Pro 5,5 nvidia backlight fix

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 05:27:00PM +0200, Martin Filip wrote:
> Maybe someone involved with this module can merge this one?

This is a really bad idea. You're hardcoding the location of PDISPLAY, 
which the kernel is at liberty to remap at boot time, and even then 
you're writing into the address space of a device that's controlled by 
another driver. Does nouveau not handle this hardware properly?

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