From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964791AbXBYKnu (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:43:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964792AbXBYKnu (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:43:50 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:40351 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964791AbXBYKns (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:43:48 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:43:45 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Rodolfo Giometti Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Advice on backlight support Message-ID: <20070225104345.GG2045@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20070221160213.GK4641@enneenne.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070221160213.GK4641@enneenne.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > I'd like to add backlight support for input devices since my custom > board has a backlighted mini keyboard. > > It could be acceptable to move the code from drivers/video/backlight/ > to drivers/backlight/ renaming the "Backlight & LCD" name into > "Backlight" and adding two new entries "LCD" and, maybe, "Input" (or > something like that?). Either that or using led class... ...keyboard backlight actually has selectable level in many cases, so I'm not sure how possible it is to do with led class...? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html