Update on DeviceKit

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:25:54PM +0100, ext Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:12:18PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:58:04PM +0100, ext Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:50:26PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > > Okay, cool.  So I guess the options here are either magical in-kernel
> > > > associations, or building our own list of 'the Dell C3000 variant three
> > > > as sold in Finland maps this ACPI device to the primary LVDS display,
> > > > whereas variant four maps _this_ ACPI device ...' in X.  Yay.
> > > 
> > > That bit is fixable, and with luck I'll poke at that next week.
> > 
> > Which bit of the two alternatives I presented? :)
> 
> All the ACPI devices except the working one will go away. I've already 
> done this, but it turns out Thinkpads are pathological. I blame 
> opregion.

Okay, cool, thanks.  In that case, it's pretty much just a driver choice
to always associate the ACPI backlight device with LVDS, in which case
backlight control is incredibly uninteresting and we have no reason to
even bother bikeshedding its implementation.  Everyone's a winner.

Cheers,
Daniel
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