From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: don't default y
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:31:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231889512.3728.21.camel@johannes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37023.1231889418@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 18:30 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:29:57 +0100, Johannes Berg said:
> > Not all the backlight drivers make sense, especially not the "generic"
> > one that works on some sharp devices. "default n" is also absolutely
> > pointless, and not everybody needs LCD backlight support either.
>
> > config BACKLIGHT_GENERIC
> > tristate "Generic (aka Sharp Corgi) Backlight Driver"
> > depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
> > - default y
> > help
>
> I asked about this one recently - apparently it's planned to be much more
> generic, but the help text still implies it's Sharp-specific.
Even if, it still shouldn't be default y.
johannes
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2009-01-13 14:29 Johannes Berg
2009-01-13 23:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-13 23:31 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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