Adding DELL brightness support to HAL

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:25 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:16 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > 
> > You've got to agree, creating the device in the fdi file is nice, much
> > cleaner than in acpi.c -- maybe we should move this panel matching
> > from
> > acpi.c. For this we need to check the existence of files
> > (/proc/acpi/toshiba/brightness for example) in a fdi file, which I'm
> > not
> > sure we can do. Sane / insane? 
> 
> If you manage to find a clean way to do the detection the sonypi backend
> does, I'll bow before you :)

No, that is uniquely special. That "magic" can stay in acpi.c :-)

Richard.