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From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
To: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:50:00 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101111235000.GA6651@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101110035833.GB3029@kamineko.org>

On Mi, 10 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> It's ages sony_laptop doesn't change, it may be some other change in the
> acpi layer that causes this.

Seems so that the sys files have changed to new locations:
/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

(mind the additional "virtual")
as well as thermal zone etc etc.

Could that explain the problem?

Best wishes

Norbert
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04 14:29 regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Norbert Preining
2010-11-10  3:58 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-11 23:50   ` Norbert Preining [this message]
2010-11-12  3:44     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12  3:50       ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12  3:57         ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12  4:14           ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12  4:22           ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-12  4:39             ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 12:17               ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-16  5:16                 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-16 14:18                   ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-16 17:41                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17  6:30             ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17  6:33               ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17  6:52                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-18 11:04                   ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 13:34                     ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 18:06                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17  7:12               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-12  7:38         ` Zhang Rui
2010-11-12 10:10           ` Norbert Preining

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