Re: RFC: Backlight Class sysfs attribute behaviour

[Andrew Zabolotny]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:05:07 +0000
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My driver_brightness is really a more generic version of your
> "hw_power" which allows other factors to be taken into consideration
> as well. We may as well have the broader-range solution as it costs
> us nothing.
Ok, your solution seems fine to me. In fact, with the old backend we
don't have guarantees that current hardware state can be read in
general; it just happened to be true for used hardware.

I just would propose to change the prototype of

int (*set_status)(struct backlight_device *, int brightness, int power,
int fb_blank);

to 

int (*set_status)(struct backlight_device *, struct backlight_status *);

This will allow adding new factors without changing the prototype
(thus without breaking old drivers which will simply ignore new added
factors).

I'm also not sure what should return

int (*get_status)(struct backlight_device *);

the brightness or the power status? Maybe it should be:

int (*get_status)(struct backlight_device *, struct backlight_status *);

-- 
Greetings,
   Andrew
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