[Intel-gfx] BACKLIGHT property for KMS case

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:21:50PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > The generic backlight addon should cope fine - I've got 0-10 here, and 
> > nouveau exposes something like 2^16 (gpm chooses a sensible number of 
> > steps in that case). Are you running an ancient version of hal?
> 
> I didn't think I was, whatever is in Moblin 2.0 these days :)

Are they running some custom backlight control app that hardcodes it? 
Limiting the maximum brightness is definitely the wrong thing to do 
here - any userspace that's failing to cope is more broken than our 
desktop code generally is.

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