Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Add entry for dell-laptop sysfs interface

[Brian Norris]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:20:59PM +0100, Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
>> You are perfectly right, the documentation is wrong and I'm sorry for
>> that. als_setting should allow you to define when the keyboard
>> backlight has to be turned on or off depending on the value reported
>> by the ambient light sensor.
>>
>> Please note that not everything that is in libsmbios [1] is implemented
>> in the kernel driver. Take a look at it, recently there have been few
>> changes related to the ALS settings. Probably they are not needed given
>> that you are able to set the threshold with the current kernel driver,
>> but you might find something interesting.
>>
>> I'll submit a patch to correct the documentation, thanks for reporting.
>
> Have I missed a patch from you for this? I'd like to see this corrected in the
> 3.19 rc cycle.

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