Update on DeviceKit

Lennart Poettering mzuny at 0pointer.de
Wed May 7 11:04:03 PDT 2008


On Wed, 07.05.08 18:25, Matthew Garrett (mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:18:12PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > The other option would be to move the backlight foo from libsmbios
> > into the kernel. The kernel does some smbios foo anyway, i figure that
> > making use of that for backlight wouldn't be too complex. I mean,
> > backlight control is not exactly rocket science.
> 
> That would involve an XML parser in the kernel. Thanks, Dell.

WTF? Dell has XML stuff in the BIOS? ouch. And there's no way around
parsing that?

Lennart

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