SPAM: Re: Add support for /sys/class/backlight

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Wed Oct 11 09:27:48 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 10:31 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Tue 10. Oct - 14:40:17, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:07 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> > > The kernel drivers will most likely keep the old /proc system for some
> > > time because of the same reasons as we do, backward compatibility ;-)
> > 
> > Well... then we probably need some more code to make sure we only add
> > one laptop_panel object (preferably the one from /sys/class/backlight).
> > Can you do this?
> 
> Well, it just requires to check if we already have a laptop_panel
> capability in the related /proc/ code, right? 

Well. That only works if we add sysfs objects before ACPI objects. Which
I think might work actually. Otherwise we can always change that.

> And yes, I will do it soon.

Thanks.

     David




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