Hi!
> The attached patch provides a sysfs mechanism for reading the LCD
> brightness on HP laptops. Since there's no clean way to determine
> whether a machine is a laptop or not from within the kernel (this
> information is in the DMI tables, but we don't currently export the
> chassis field), it does nothing until userspace has enabled it.
Can you fix the DMI code to export chasis, then?
> Right now, I'm looking for comments on how to integrate it sensibly -
> leaving it under drivers/misc and registering it as a platform device
> /works/, but isn't terribly clean.
Lots of handhelds ave brightness settings, and it is *very* important
there. Perhaps you could use same interface?
Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!
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