[PATCH][RFC] Backlight addon for dell laptops

[Bill Nottingham]

David Zeuthen (david at fubar.dk) said: 
> Not at this point; it's distro independent right now. For example, in
> Fedora we simply load /lib/modules/$unamer/kernel/drivers/acpi/*
> in /etc/rc.sysint. That's, uh, ugly as hell. I think also sonypi suffers
> from this.
> 
> I think the wrong answer is to make the HAL addon load the module.
> Probably the right answer to loading such modules belongs somewhere in
> udev perhaps. Or maybe in HAL, I don't really know but I do think stuff
> like this is important to fix.... Kay, Bill (and others, of course, feel
> free to jump in), what's your take on this?

I'm all for any way that lets us autoload it via udev/uevents;
the issue is there's no good way to do matching, AFAIK. For things
like ibm_acpi, toshiba_acpi, etc., you could theoretically do
DMI matching, if that was exported somewhere.

Of course, you could always just build them all in. <waits for
bricks from the kernel people>

Bill