Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:41:07 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Please think architecture... Message-ID: <34337.1188405667@critter.freebsd.dk>
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My new laptop is a Fujitsu-Siemens and when I load the acpi_fujitsu,
some new sysctls appear:
hw.acpi.fujitsu.lcd_brightness: 4
hw.acpi.fujitsu.lcd_brightness_radix: 8
But these are named wrong, they should be:
hw.backlight.brightness: 4
hw.backlight.brightness_radix: 8
or something like it.
Backlighting is not a vendor specific feature, all laptops with LCD
displays have it.
If generic stuff like that end up under vendor-specific branches,
we will never grow generic tools to handle backlightning but will
instead have a tool for each vendor or a maddening list like the
lists of SCSI controllers in devd.conf:
set scsi-controller-regex
"(aac|adv|adw|aha|ahb|ahc|ahd|aic|amd|amr|asr|bt|ciss|ct|dpt|\
esp|ida|iir|ips|isp|mlx|mly|mpt|ncr|ncv|nsp|stg|sym|trm|wds)\
[0-9]+";
Please don't turn FreeBSD into a nightmare of fragmented bits, just like
Linux.
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