[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] Description for "Backlight" property in randrproto.txt

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Tue Aug 18 17:53:13 CEST 2009


On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:31:59 +0200
Matthias Hopf <mhopf at suse.de> wrote:

> On Aug 18, 09 13:46:59 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > I'd like to document the Backlight property as a known good
> > property. Comments?
> 
> Also I noted that the intel driver current uses BACKLIGHT as the
> property name - I thought we all agreed that we wouldn't use any
> ALL_CAPS names any more. Is this a left-over, or just an oversight?

Leftover I think, from before you standardized the xrandr props...

> And how to deal with this? Renaming this to Backlight in the driver
> probably won't do any good, as some tools are already using the
> BACKLIGHT one. Shall the implementation provide both cases for a
> while?
> 
> Also xbacklight should probably be changed to use Backlight if
> possible.

Yeah, we can make x-v-i take both.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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