Re: [PATCH] H22xx backlight support

Erik Hovland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.opie.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 28.05.2006, 16:58 +0200 schrieb Slavek Banko:
> > Here is patch to add support for backlight on H22xx.
> > 
> > Instead of using "::system" (and running external process as support for 
> > H1910 and H4700), I write to files in /sys/class/... directly.
> 
> Thanks. I'll take care about that.
> 
> > I consider to replace all model 
> > specific /sys/class/backlight/_model_specific_device_/brightness 
> > and /sys/class/lcd/_model_specific_device_/power by code, that find 
> > devices by current contents of /sys/class/backlight/ and /sys/class/lcd/. 
> > That code will be common for more devices. Can I make it?
> 
> Do you mean for all ipaqs or for all PDAs? I'm not sure whether we want
> to have such a large reorganization done.

There will be a day where all handhelds use the sysfs interface. But
that isn't now. Many handhelds still run the 2.4 kernel. Only h2200 and
hx4700 can be switched to sysfs for backlight in odevice_ipaq.cpp.

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