Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH]

From: James Simmons
Date: Thu Feb 22 2007 - 11:49:59 EST


On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:35 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:23 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > > If this is an attempt to consolidate, I don't see the 'brightness'
> > > hook of backlight and lcd.
> > >
> > > If this is not a consolidation, why don't we just extend the lcd class?
> >
> > Its is a replacement for lcd. Is brightness universal for all display
> > types?
>
> Well, if you're adding a universal interface, you need hooks for more
> than that (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, tint, etc). Then we
> just let the drivers cherry pick from the list on what it's going to
> support.

Ah. Thats the power of sysfs groups :-)

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