[Nouveau] Put acpi/backlight code into kernel

[Renato Caldas]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM,  <schmirrwurst at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your answer,
>
> You said this kind of code doesn't belong in the nouveau driver, but backlight
> support have already been added in it, and it works well ...

You need to be aware that people aren't comfortable in including every
possible non-standard feature in the kernel. That would be
unmaintainable, and it's the reason for the negative answers you've
received so far, it's not that people are unwilling to help.

> So I need to find the person in charge of the sony platform driver, and ask him
> to take the nouveau backlight code.. would that work ?
Possibly. IMHO that's the best place to put that kind of code.

> Where are the platform driver hosted, who do I need to ask then ?
That I have no idea. You can try to google for the project or check
the kernel logs..

Cheers,
  Renato
>
> Thanks
> Sebastien
>
> Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 12:00:59, Renato Caldas a écrit :
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > Find someone who wants to create and maintain it.
>>
>> This kind of code doesn't belong in the nouveau driver, as you
>> probably already know.
>>
>> But there are things called "platform drivers" that support all those
>> non-standard features you may find on laptops, like radio switches,
>> leds, ... and backlight. There is one such driver for my Asus laptop,
>> which is called "asus-laptop".
>>
>> So what you want is a platform driver for your hardware. Now you need
>> to either find someone who can code it, or do it yourself. It
>> shouldn't be that difficult if working code is already available.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Renato
>>
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