Update on DeviceKit

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 06:30:26PM +0100, ext Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:23:41PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Omitting a backlight interface on o.fd.DeviceKit.Power also has a lot to
> > do with keeping things simple (or simpler) and make it easy for people
> > new to hacking on Linux on where to fix bugs / fix their system. It's
> > _confusing_ the way it is right now. And that confusion is hurting us
> > insofar that people wanting to contribute / fix their system waste time
> > looking in the wrong place.
> 
> There's nothing simple about backlight control. Anyone who claims 
> otherwise hasn't spent enough time dealing with the hardware...

I think you're conflating the confusingly similar concepts of 'not
necessarily as simple as you'd think' and 'interesting design case we
should eternally bikeshed over'.

Cheers,
Daniel
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