[PATCH] Keyboard backlight driver for Oct 2005 PowerBooks

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Aug 28 08:34:23 EST 2006


On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 14:30 +0200, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
> This driver provides an interface to the keyboard backlight on Oct 2005
> PowerBooks, which have the backlight behind the PMU. This driver doesn't
> support the I²C variant used in earlier PowerBooks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel at hansmi.ch>

Why would we need a driver ? Userland can emit PMU commands directly...
At least, if we do a driver, it should provide a common interface to
both PMU and i2c based LMUs

Ben.





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