Hi,
I am currently extending my asmc driver (in kernel) to listen to a userland
utility (asmcctl).
I want to be able to e.g. tell the kernel asmc driver to increase/decrease
backlight.
Now I need to get this brightness integer from userland (everybody should be
able to do this without
From: Sven-Volker Nowarra peb.nowa...@bluewin.ch
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:43:07 +0100
Hi,
I am currently extending my asmc driver (in kernel) to listen to a
userland utility (asmcctl).
In general we don;t encourage device-specific control utilities in
OpenBSD; instead we try to provide
On 2014/02/16 14:43, Sven-Volker Nowarra wrote:
Hi,
I am currently extending my asmc driver (in kernel) to listen to a userland
utility (asmcctl).
I want to be able to e.g. tell the kernel asmc driver to increase/decrease
backlight.
Now I need to get this brightness integer from userland
...for controlling the display backlight the appropriate utility is
wsconsctl:
$ wsconsctl display.brightness
display.brightness=100.00%
$ wsconsctl display.brightness=50
display.brightness - 50.00%
To make this work, your driver has to provide the ws_get_param and
ws_set_param hooks.