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From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: Add dell-laptop driver
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:02:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081202170228.GB9524@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081127163444.GB22846@srcf.ucam.org>

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:34:44PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Add a driver for controling Dell-specific backlight and rfkill interfaces.
> This driver makes use of the dcdbas interface to the Dell firmware to allow
> the backlight and rfkill interfaces on Dell systems to be driven through the
> standardised sysfs interfaces.

ack on the rfkill aspect.

For the backlight, right now, userspace HAL calls out to libsmbios to
modify the backlight settings.  Will this conflict?  Or is it HAL that
would decide to use either the standard sysfs interface if present,
falling back to libsmbios if not?

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-27 16:33 [PATCH 1/2] dcdbas: Export functionality for use in other drivers Matthew Garrett
2008-11-27 16:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] misc: Add dell-laptop driver Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 17:02   ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2008-12-02 17:03     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 19:50   ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-02 20:05     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 20:22       ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-02 20:30         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 20:16     ` [PATCH 2/2 update] " Matthew Garrett
2008-12-03 12:37       ` Alan Jenkins
2008-12-03 13:01       ` none
2008-12-05  2:05         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-12-03 19:14       ` Len Brown
2008-12-03 19:52         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-04  9:12           ` Sven Wegener
2008-12-04 11:00           ` Alan Jenkins
2008-12-05  2:08             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-12-02  3:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] dcdbas: Export functionality for use in other drivers Greg KH
2008-12-02  4:03   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-12-02 17:03     ` Matt Domsch

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