RE: [PATCH] backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devices

[Hennerich, Michael]

Andrew Morton wrote on 2011-01-21:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:25:50 +0000 "Hennerich, Michael"
> <Michael.Hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Is the sysfs API documented anywhere?
>>
>> Yes - http://wiki-analog.com/software/driver/linux/adp8870
>> I guess you are asking me to write something that goes into linux-
> 2.6.x/Documentation?
>
> That would be nice, please.  Documentation/ABI/, perhaps.
>
> In an ideal world, documentation wouldn't be necessary because all
> backlight drivers offer the same (or sufficiently similar) interfaces,
> so one generic document describes them all.  I don't know how close we
> are to that however.

This driver implements the ABI documented in
linux-2.6.x/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight
however it adds some additional ABI for ambient light sensor/zones.

http://wiki-analog.com/software/driver/linux/adp8870

Richard do you think my extension is suitable to be added there too?

Greetings,
Michael

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