Hello! Here's the patch I've failed to push into mainstream half of year ago, but with one major modification that avoids the use of the class_device_find() function that was disliked so much. The patch must be applied after the fbdev cleanup patch series, notably after this patch: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6206427&forum_id=2357 since it uses the FB_BLANK notification event. The patch will allow further developement of drivers that allow controlling backlight and LCD flat panels on hardware that supports it (in particular, on PDAs). -- Greetings, Andrew