On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:10:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > You cannot seriously tell me that if we are to change this range from 0-8 > up to 0-100 then this is not a backwards-incompatible change in > semantics.
We're talking about changing 0-100 to 0-something sane, because the current driver is quite clearly broken. And yes, I'm perfectly happy to say that - the reason that max_brightness is exported is to allow userspace to determine what range of values is acceptable, and if userspace ignores that then things are going to break for it at some point. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
