On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 23:10 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > * 'cat brightness' != 'cat actual_brightness' upon bootup (doesn't have > > > > Hmm, I see this in 2.6.20 too. And brightness is the one that is buggy. I > > will look into it. > > Now, that was trivial to fix, and I will reply with a patch (which will have > Cc's trimmed to just the MLs and Richard). > > But really, should not the backlight *class* be doing the initial update of > the brightness? Looks like something that every device would need to do if > the class doesn't do it, and unlike the "power it off on unregister" thing, > I can't think of a reason not to do it for every backlight class device. > > Please ACK the ibm-acpi patch in my next message if you'd like me to submit > it to Len Brown for merging into 2.6.21, or NACK it if you'd rather do it in > the backlight class core.
We can't change the backlight class code since some hardware can't read from the device, only write to it. Initialisation in that case is a bit different. Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
