From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759261AbZAMXai (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:30:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753764AbZAMXa3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:30:29 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:50302 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753414AbZAMXa2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:30:28 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Johannes Berg Cc: Richard Purdie , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: don't default y In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:29:57 +0100." <1231856997.3671.38.camel@johannes> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1231856997.3671.38.camel@johannes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1231889418_3146P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:30:18 -0500 Message-ID: <37023.1231889418@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1231889418_3146P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. --==_Exmh_1231889418_3146P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJbSQKcC3lWbTT17ARAgrrAKC+g+j5lAiNzpfUGPuRX1k4OzT/YQCgmpiA sO0OIu5gMhcntPxp+UIjaUE= =yg9w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1231889418_3146P--