[PATCH] GetBrightness method has to return _unsigned_ int

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 02:18:36 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 23:55 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> KPowersave, g-p-m (AFAIK), powersave (new version) and maybe other
> using the interface, but I think also other stuff will fail as e.g.
> call suspend or may mount/umount would break. 

This will break g-p-m, but I'm perfectly okay to change this in g-p-m as
I knew we were on borrowed time.

> This is IMO really problem and would cause many problems. I think we
> have to document _and_ expose/announce this also to the KDE/GNOME
> guys.

Yes, you've fixed the bug but broken nearly all users of this.

Richard.




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