Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver

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Hi!

> > I assume that cute userspace applications for controlling backlight
> > brightness via the generic backlight driver either exist or are in
> > progress?  What is the status of that?
> 
> For Dell laptops, the dellLcdBrightness app is included in the
> libsmbios-bin package (http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ and
> http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html for the yum repo).  It's
> entirely userspace.

Please move it into the kernel where it belongs, and use lcd
brightness subsystem like everyone else.
							Pavel
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Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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