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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2011-03-23 02:34:54 -0400 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2011-03-23 02:34:54 -0400 |
| commit | 02e2407858fd62053bf60349c0e72cd1c7a4a60e (patch) | |
| tree | 0ebdbddc97d3abbc675916010e7771065b70c137 /Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight | |
| parent | 96e1c408ea8a556c5b51e0e7d56bd2afbfbf5fe9 (diff) | |
| parent | 6447f55da90b77faec1697d499ed7986bb4f6de6 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight | 20 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight index 4d637e1c4ff..70302f370e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight @@ -34,3 +34,23 @@ Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Description: Maximum brightness for <backlight>. Users: HAL + +What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/type +Date: September 2010 +KernelVersion: 2.6.37 +Contact: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> +Description: + The type of interface controlled by <backlight>. + "firmware": The driver uses a standard firmware interface + "platform": The driver uses a platform-specific interface + "raw": The driver controls hardware registers directly + + In the general case, when multiple backlight + interfaces are available for a single device, firmware + control should be preferred to platform control should + be preferred to raw control. Using a firmware + interface reduces the probability of confusion with + the hardware and the OS independently updating the + backlight state. Platform interfaces are mostly a + holdover from pre-standardisation of firmware + interfaces. |