[PATCH][RFC] Backlight addon for dell laptops

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 22:08 +0100, Erik Andrén wrote:
> I've developed an addon for hal, making it possible to control the AC
> and the battery backlight values for Dell laptops using SMBIOS.

That's pretty cool, it's nice to control the backlight via software,
thanks for looking into this.

> My first approach was to try to emulate the work the c++ libsmbios
> library developed by Dell did in C. I quickly discovered  that the code
> got quite messy and thus I decided to abandon this approach in favor of
> linking against the libsmbios library. 

It's libsmbios free and open source software? Do many vendors (which
ones?) ship it?

     David