Brightness support for "sonypi" supported laptops

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 00:33 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 23:03 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > OK to commit? (not that I have rights to commit in hal)
> > 
> > Looks okay to me, although that IRQ code looks wacky (but I see why it's
> > required), so no problem.
> 
> The values are stolen from the sonypi module, and won't work in one
> particular case where the device will not have an IRQ (if I understood
> the code correctly). Better that it doesn't work on some machines than
> claiming to work and not doing so :)

Sure, agreed.

> 2006-04-26  Richard Hughes  <richard at hughsie.com>
> 
>         Patch from Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>:
> 
>         * hald/linux2/acpi.c: (laptop_panel_refresh),
>         (acpi_synthesize_sonypi_display),
> (acpi_synthesize_hotplug_events):
>         Create an LCD Panel object of type sonypi, necessary for getting
> the
>         methods supported for panasonic notebooks.
>                               ^^^^^^^^^
>                              did you mean sony? :)

I'll change it on my next commit, sorry!

Richard.