From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756364AbYA1B0T (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:26:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753047AbYA1B0J (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:26:09 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([78.32.9.130]:58843 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752526AbYA1B0I (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:26:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:25:50 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Andrew Morton Cc: Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20080128012549.GA24166@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20071226020325.GA21099@srcf.ucam.org> <200801241644.49114.lenb@kernel.org> <20080126220045.b93db7c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080126220045.b93db7c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:45 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on vavatch.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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