Hi,
On 02/13/2014 09:12 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 08:43:10PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>
>> I can understand where Dave is coming from, from a kernel pov, so this
>> might really be easier to just solve in userspace. I don't know if you've
>> seen my very rough sketch
Hi,
On 02/13/2014 06:19 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:41:53PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>
>> I still believe we need to do better, but maybe that better needs to be done
>> in userspace rather then in the kernel.
>
> One option is to put it on the connector but provid
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 08:43:10PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I can understand where Dave is coming from, from a kernel pov, so this
> might really be easier to just solve in userspace. I don't know if you've
> seen my very rough sketch of how this could work in userspace in my other
> mail. Th
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:41:53PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I still believe we need to do better, but maybe that better needs to be done
> in userspace rather then in the kernel.
One option is to put it on the connector but provide some mechanism for
userspace to define the relationship bet
Hi,
On 02/13/2014 07:37 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 13.02.2014 04:26, David Herrmann wrote:
>> The "attach" stuff actually sounds doable, but who decides which one
>> to attach? You still need some user-space script during device-plug
>> for that.
>> But to be honest, the simplest way would
Hi,
On 02/12/2014 11:26 PM, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Ville Syrj?l?
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:14:04AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
The biggest remaining stumbling block is the backlight API, because
opening the
sysfs files requ
Hi,
On 02/12/2014 09:14 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>
>> The biggest remaining stumbling block is the backlight API, because opening
>> the
>> sysfs files requires root rights. I'll very likely write a little helper for
>> this
>> for now, but in the long run it would be good to have a better soluti
13.02.2014 04:26, David Herrmann wrote:
> The "attach" stuff actually sounds doable, but who decides which one
> to attach? You still need some user-space script during device-plug
> for that.
> But to be honest, the simplest way would be a "backlightd"
> bus-activatable daemon. SetBacklight() then
>
> The biggest remaining stumbling block is the backlight API, because opening
> the
> sysfs files requires root rights. I'll very likely write a little helper for
> this
> for now, but in the long run it would be good to have a better solution.
>
> While discussion this in the graphics devroom
Hi
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Ville Syrj?l?
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:14:04AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> >
>> > The biggest remaining stumbling block is the backlight API, because
>> > opening the
>> > sysfs files requires root rights. I'll very likely write a little helper
>>
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:14:04AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > The biggest remaining stumbling block is the backlight API, because opening
> > the
> > sysfs files requires root rights. I'll very likely write a little helper
> > for this
> > for now, but in the long run it would be good to h
Hi All,
Quick self intro: I've been a FOSS developer for 15+ years now and I've been
working for Red Hat for 5 years. Recently I've moved to the graphics team.
One of my first tasks in the graphics team is to make the xserver run without
root rights. I'm making good progress with this, having sol
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