Re: [PATCH v2] Add backlight driver for Nvidia-based Apple MacbookPros

From: Richard Purdie
Date: Mon Jun 09 2008 - 17:24:14 EST


On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 01:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Nvidia-based Apple Macbook Pros don't appear to handle backlight control
> through the graphics card registers or ACPI, but instead trigger changes
> via SMI calls. This driver registers a generic backlight device that
> lets existing userspace deal with it. Code derived from Julien Blache's
> Pommed application.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Queued in the backlight tree, thanks.

Richard

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