On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:37:04PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > > If we can't make an interface 100% consistent, we shouldn't pretend that > > the interface is 100% consistent. We can't, and so we don't. Setting a > > backlight value of 0 may turn the screen off, and userspace needs to > > deal with that. > > This is insanity; we can never guarantee 100% of anything. > > Better is better. And 99% is better than 90%
An interface that describes reality is better than one that doesn't. But hey, feel free to disagree and post a patch for the ABI docs. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
