[PATCH][RFC] Backlight addon for dell laptops

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 22:38 +0100, Erik Andrén wrote:
> I've already got a positive feedback from one person claiming that it
> works fine on his system.

Cool, I talked to the Dell people as well; they were very happy to see
this code landing.

> > An interesting question is whether that driver is autoloaded if it's
> > compiled as a module :-). I'll see what Fedora does tonight!
> 
> On Ubuntu Feisty current I needed to manually load this module. Is there
> a way for hal to "suggest" to the kernel what modules to load?

Not at this point; it's distro independent right now. For example, in
Fedora we simply load /lib/modules/$unamer/kernel/drivers/acpi/*
in /etc/rc.sysint. That's, uh, ugly as hell. I think also sonypi suffers
from this.

I think the wrong answer is to make the HAL addon load the module.
Probably the right answer to loading such modules belongs somewhere in
udev perhaps. Or maybe in HAL, I don't really know but I do think stuff
like this is important to fix.... Kay, Bill (and others, of course, feel
free to jump in), what's your take on this?

     David