Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:50:23PM +, Richard Purdie wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:23 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:32:02PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > I CC Greg to explain. The backlight class didn't go away. The way it is > > > handled is differ

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Purdie
Hi Greg, On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:23 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:32:02PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > I CC Greg to explain. The backlight class didn't go away. The way it is > > handled is different. > > Have a pointer to the patch so I can help explain better? You've

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:54:21PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:32:02PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:28 +, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > I have some patches that move the bac

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread James Simmons
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:32:02PM +, James Simmons wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:28 +, James Simmons wrote: > > > > I have some patches that move the backlight away from using the class > > > > stuff. The only problem is the pa

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:32:02PM +, James Simmons wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:28 +, James Simmons wrote: > > > I have some patches that move the backlight away from using the class > > > stuff. The only problem is the patch requires

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 18:32 +, James Simmons wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:28 +, James Simmons wrote: > > > I have some patches that move the backlight away from using the class > > > stuff. The only problem is the patch requires all bac

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread James Simmons
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:28 +, James Simmons wrote: > > I have some patches that move the backlight away from using the class > > stuff. The only problem is the patch requires all backlight devices > > to be linked to a real struct device. Right no

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:28 +, James Simmons wrote: > I have some patches that move the backlight away from using the class > stuff. The only problem is the patch requires all backlight devices > to be linked to a real struct device. Right now the acpi backligths are > not. Why would you wa

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-08 Thread James Simmons
I have some patches that move the backlight away from using the class stuff. The only problem is the patch requires all backlight devices to be linked to a real struct device. Right now the acpi backligths are not. Signed-Off: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/video/backl

Re: Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:30:26 + Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking of more officially volunteering to maintain the Linux > backlight class/subsystem and have been trying to sort out the various > pending patches. I've made a backlight tree available as: > > http://git.o-h

Git backlight subsystem tree

2007-02-07 Thread Richard Purdie
I'm thinking of more officially volunteering to maintain the Linux backlight class/subsystem and have been trying to sort out the various pending patches. I've made a backlight tree available as: http://git.o-hand.com/?p=linux-rpurdie-backlight;a=shortlog;h=for-mm (or git://git.o-hand.com/linux-r