Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 30 23:46:16 UTC 2015
On Friday, January 30, 2015 04:45:45 PM Elizabeth Myers wrote:
> On 01/30/15 09:17, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Humm. If the code is going to live in the drm driver, then I would
> > start with hanging a sysctl off of the drm device itself. (Each new-bus
> > device_t has a sysctl ctx you can get to hang new nodes off of the
> > device's node.)
>
> I'm wondering if that's the correct place for it to live. So far it's
> the only real place it *can* live that makes logical sense imho, unless
> anyone has better ideas.
>
> This is awesome. As for upower, it should probably be patched to know
> about other types of brightness sysctls if/when this is implemented.
For now I think hanging it off of the device_t is fine. It can be moved
later if there is an urgent need. However, I suspect that tools like upower
will need updating regardless of where it ends up living.
--
John Baldwin
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