Re: [PATCH] backlight: don't default y

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 18:30 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> 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.

Even if, it still shouldn't be default y.

johannes

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