[Intel-gfx] BACKLIGHT property for KMS case
Matthias Hopf
mhopf at suse.de
Mon Aug 17 09:52:37 PDT 2009
On Aug 17, 09 09:17:02 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:07:45PM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > +#define BACKLIGHT_CLASS "/sys/class/backlight"
>
> Why can't we use libudev to get this kind of device instead of
> hard-coding it?
This is just copy and paste from the original code. Typically libudev
is frowned upon a bit in X due to drivers being compilable on *BSD and
other OSes, and I'm unsure about the state there (is udev used there? is
the kernel interface different? do they support KMS already at all?).
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