Why do we still ship hal-system-power-pmu / PMU support suboptimal in pm-utils

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 10:32:51AM +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > apparently, the hal suspend script (hal-system-power-suspend-linux)
> > does not use hal-system-power-pmu anymore, so I'm wondering, why hal
> > still ships this binary?
> > Isn't the backend (pm-utils resp. pm-pmu) supposed to provide this
> > kind of functionality?
> 
> The binary is used in hal-system-lcd-{s,g}et-brightness-linux to change the 
> backlight levels. 

Actually radeon based powerbooks can do brightness adjustments through the
normal sysfs backlight class these days. I'm unsure about nvidia based
powerbooks though. I'll do a quick poll on the debian powerpc list to see if
anyone knows.

  Sjoerd
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