Re: [PATCH] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver (v2)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Looks okay to me. We really want unified interface for backlight.
> 
> Then I request some help to get
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/19792
> merged.
> 
> Without it, the backlight interface becomes annoying on laptops.  Your
> screen will be powered off when you remove the modules providing the
> backlight interface.  This is not consistent with the needs of laptop
> backlight devices, or with the behaviour the drivers had before the
> backlight sysfs support was added.

Just retransmit it to akpm and list, and add acked-by headers with
people who said patch is okay... that included me IIRC.

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