Mackbook pro nvidia based video backlight

[Ed Schouten]

* Daniel Lannstrom <op at trekdanne.se> wrote:
> > I'm asking which method will be the best to interface the driver with
> > userland applications?
> 
> You might want to make it a character device driver. And write a small
> userland control program. Sysctl isn't really made for this kind of
> functionality.

No. sysctl is good for doing stuff like this. An even better approach
would be to integrate it to the X11 driver, but I guess it will be cold
day in hell when this happens.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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