[PATCH RFC 0/4] Linking DRM Connectors to Backlight Devices

2014-09-11 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:54 +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > >> * User-space currently has a hard-time figuring out which backlight device >> to >>use, and which backlight device belongs to which display. So far, most >>systems

[PATCH RFC 0/4] Linking DRM Connectors to Backlight Devices

2014-09-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:54 +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > * User-space currently has a hard-time figuring out which backlight device to >use, and which backlight device belongs to which display. So far, most >systems only provide backlight-devices for internal displays, so figuring > ou

[PATCH RFC 0/4] Linking DRM Connectors to Backlight Devices

2014-09-10 Thread David Herrmann
Hi This series introduces a link between DRM connectors and backlight-class devices. It tries to solve some long standing issues: * User-space currently has a hard-time figuring out which backlight device to use, and which backlight device belongs to which display. So far, most systems onl