[PATCH][RFC] Backlight addon for dell laptops

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 03:35:10 PST 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:30 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> Does HAL support it (not as far as I can tell)? May be it makes sense
> to 
> integrate Dell in existing kernel framework?

Yes, HAL supports this. I don't think we can do the smbios stuff kernel
side due to the requirement of a large smbios library that the kernel
developers don't want to touch.

Richard.




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