[Intel-gfx] BACKLIGHT property for KMS case

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:32:43PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 09:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:07:45PM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > > +#define BACKLIGHT_CLASS "/sys/class/backlight"
> > 
> > Why can't we use libudev to get this kind of device instead of
> > hard-coding it?
> 
> The X server currently uses hal for input device hot-plug; while we'd
> love to move that to libudev, we don't have any configuration
> infrastructure available in that environment, and so I suspect the core
> server will grow some libudev infrastructure in the near future.
> Anything we do with either hal or libudev is likely to be invalidated by
> this plan, so I'd suggest doing the easy thing for now and fixing it
> later when real libudev support appears.

The easiest is to do it all in a different driver, but I don't think
that is what others want :)

thanks,

greg k-h