Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:22:24 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: Add driver for Apple gmux device |
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:18:52AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> Why do you presume it works under Windows? Boot camp installs a pile of > drivers for Windows, one of those could be a driver for the backlight. I > don't know either way. But it's pretty clear that MacOS is using the > gmux for the backlight when it is present from the reverse engineering > work done by others.
The only reason to provide it at all is for Windows - it's never going to be used under OS X.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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