Re: [PATCH 2.6.29] eeepc-laptop: report brightness control events via the input layer

From: Corentin Chary
Date: Sat Apr 04 2009 - 04:33:37 EST


> On the other hand, the default behaviour of the acpi video driver is to
> change the brightness itself and then also to send the even to
> userspace, so I guess if it was going to break things it probably would
> have done already...

So, I think this patch is ok.

But there is a thing I don't like is
int brn = -2;
brn = notify_brn();
if (brn != -2)

How can brn be -2 ? And why -2 ?

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