From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754819AbYLBRCr (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:02:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756000AbYLBRCa (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:02:30 -0500 Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com ([143.166.148.206]:9493 "EHLO ausc60ps301.us.dell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755954AbYLBRC3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:02:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:02:28 -0600 From: Matt Domsch To: Matthew Garrett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: Add dell-laptop driver Message-ID: <20081202170228.GB9524@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> References: <20081127163357.GA22846@srcf.ucam.org> <20081127163444.GB22846@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081127163444.GB22846@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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