From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH]
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:49:36 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702221648540.29542@pentafluge.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172109206.4217.61.camel@daplas>
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:35 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:23 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > > If this is an attempt to consolidate, I don't see the 'brightness'
> > > hook of backlight and lcd.
> > >
> > > If this is not a consolidation, why don't we just extend the lcd class?
> >
> > Its is a replacement for lcd. Is brightness universal for all display
> > types?
>
> Well, if you're adding a universal interface, you need hooks for more
> than that (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, tint, etc). Then we
> just let the drivers cherry pick from the list on what it's going to
> support.
Ah. Thats the power of sysfs groups :-)
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From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:49:36 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702221648540.29542@pentafluge.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172109206.4217.61.camel@daplas>
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:35 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:23 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > > If this is an attempt to consolidate, I don't see the 'brightness'
> > > hook of backlight and lcd.
> > >
> > > If this is not a consolidation, why don't we just extend the lcd class?
> >
> > Its is a replacement for lcd. Is brightness universal for all display
> > types?
>
> Well, if you're adding a universal interface, you need hooks for more
> than that (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, tint, etc). Then we
> just let the drivers cherry pick from the list on what it's going to
> support.
Ah. Thats the power of sysfs groups :-)
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 21:23 [PATCH] James Simmons
2007-02-21 21:23 ` [PATCH] James Simmons
2007-02-22 1:03 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] Antonino A. Daplas
2007-02-22 1:03 ` [PATCH] Antonino A. Daplas
2007-02-22 1:35 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] James Simmons
2007-02-22 1:53 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-02-22 1:53 ` [PATCH] Antonino A. Daplas
2007-02-22 16:49 ` James Simmons [this message]
2007-02-22 16:49 ` [PATCH] James Simmons
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