On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:16:00PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > What I still don't understand is your reason for preferring > driver-specific interfaces for disabling backlights to a single generic > interface. Are you afraid that allowing it to be done from userspace > will make it too easy, and as a result quirks will be applied without > attempting to fix the problem (i.e. the quriking should go through a > kernel dev to ensure someone tries to fix the problem is made before > applying a quirk)?
Yup, that. We'll just end up with three billion forum posts telling people to add a line to a text file and nobody will ever fix the real problem. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
