Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:40:10 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Dell laptop backlight driver |
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 02:20:31PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> I've had this discussion on lkml before. Short story is, until Dell > laptops implement the ACPI methods that the backlight API expects, the > only sane way to do it is to let libsmbios handle it. Moving the > fairly large and complex libsmbios into the kernel isn't a good idea > (imho).
My understanding was that the current range supported the ACPI methods. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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