Bug#407671: kernel 2.6.18: Confusion about Macintosh backlight configuration

2007-01-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:05 +0100, Matthias Grimm wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:33:35 +1100 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Which solution you prefer is up to you but I would be glad if at least > > > solution #1 could be realised. > > > > For now, at least, what pre

Bug#407671: kernel 2.6.18: Confusion about Macintosh backlight configuration

2007-01-22 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:33:35 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which solution you prefer is up to you but I would be glad if at least > > solution #1 could be realised. > > For now, at least, what prevents you from having all enabled and have > pbbuttonsd still call PMU_

Bug#407671: kernel 2.6.18: Confusion about Macintosh backlight configuration

2007-01-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> This will allow modern systems to be compiled only with > CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT and a user space daemon does the rest. I hope my > point could be seen. I would really appreciate if the configuration > could be cleaned up. > > Other solutions could be: > > 2. If the sysfs backlight driver is ope

Bug#407671: kernel 2.6.18: Confusion about Macintosh backlight configuration

2007-01-20 Thread Matthias Grimm
Hi, I know your guys are very busy and sometimes a email got lost. Normally I would let it run but this time debian is going to integrate a kernel from my point of view with a grave bug and they rejected any change because they can't see any changes in the upstream project. (see debian bug #407671