On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:59:06AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>
> Reading through the patch its:
>
> 1) Not against any mainline kernel
> 2) Not against a recent kernel
I'm sorry, but the patch applay against the latest kernel. Please, try
it.
> There were a number of backlight class changes just merged into mainline
> and you need to sync up any patch against them.
My patch uses current backlight class support in the kernel.
> As mentioned by others, there is no need to tie the backlight driver
> into the framebuffer any more. Have a look at
> drivers/video/backlight/corgi_bl.c for an example (its used by PXA
> devices).
That driver uses the backlight class support as my patch does into
pxafb.
> I have said elsewhere I will take patches to make corgi_bl a more
> generic driver (or maybe create a simple generic backlight driver) along
> the lines of what Paul mentioned.
I see.
I suppose you are the backlight support mantainer, so what do you
suggest to do to "make corgi_bl a more generic driver"?
I have to rename and modify it? Or just copy it to have backward
compatibility and the modify the new file?
I should mv backlight directory from the video one?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Rodolfo
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