From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:25:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128012549.GA24166@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080126220045.b93db7c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:00:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Create a new /sys node with a new name which has the new semantics.
The semantics are the same as they always have been - values between 0
and max_brightness are valid values. If you've made assumptions about
what max_brightness is, then that's a bug in the userspace application
rather than a change in the semantics of the interface.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 2:03 [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation Matthew Garrett
2008-01-14 1:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-22 8:33 ` Zhang Rui
2008-01-22 11:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-22 12:39 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-24 21:44 ` Len Brown
2008-01-27 2:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-27 6:00 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-28 1:25 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-01-28 5:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-28 5:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-28 15:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-02 3:46 ` Len Brown
2008-02-02 11:30 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-06 10:09 ` Romano Giannetti
2008-02-02 3:43 ` Len Brown
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