On Tue, 08 Jan 2008, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > So be it, then.  But my request that we get a way to add the information we
> > are losing to the backlight class still stands.
> 
> The thing is does this 0-100 value have a use to userspace? Its

You can request something like "middle brightness please" (although whether
you get middle power comsumption or middle brightness is undetermined in the
ACPI spec).

> extremely device specific and can't be exported from the class in a
> generic way suggesting it should really be something exported by the
> driver itself. You still have to ask whether userspace actually needs
> this value though?

To just cycle brightness up and down, it certainly doesn't need it.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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