Re: [PATCH] video: backlight: Remove backlight sysfs uevent

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 22:56 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Jingoo Han wrote:
> > 'thinkpad_acpi.c' uses the 'BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS'.
> > Henrique, can we remove it?
> 
> Can't you fix this by rate-limiting, or otherwise adding an attribute that
> backlight devices should set when they need to supress change events?

It looks like this is just to force synchronisation to sysfs when using
the /proc interface? In which case we should probably just kill
the /proc interface.

-- 
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>

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