On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your answer, > > You said this kind of code doesn't belong in the nouveau driver, but backlight > support have already been added in it, and it works well ...
You need to be aware that people aren't comfortable in including every possible non-standard feature in the kernel. That would be unmaintainable, and it's the reason for the negative answers you've received so far, it's not that people are unwilling to help. > So I need to find the person in charge of the sony platform driver, and ask > him > to take the nouveau backlight code.. would that work ? Possibly. IMHO that's the best place to put that kind of code. > Where are the platform driver hosted, who do I need to ask then ? That I have no idea. You can try to google for the project or check the kernel logs.. Cheers, Renato > > Thanks > Sebastien > > Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 12:00:59, Renato Caldas a écrit : >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Maarten Maathuis <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > Find someone who wants to create and maintain it. >> >> This kind of code doesn't belong in the nouveau driver, as you >> probably already know. >> >> But there are things called "platform drivers" that support all those >> non-standard features you may find on laptops, like radio switches, >> leds, ... and backlight. There is one such driver for my Asus laptop, >> which is called "asus-laptop". >> >> So what you want is a platform driver for your hardware. Now you need >> to either find someone who can code it, or do it yourself. It >> shouldn't be that difficult if working code is already available. >> >> Cheers, >> Renato >> > _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
