[oe] [RFC] ipaq-sleep backlight control

[Andrew Paulsen]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Andrew Paulsen
<andrew.paulsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did a code cleanup on ipaq-sleep and added the option to use your
>  own backlight control script instead of gpe-conf to adjust brightness.
>
>  http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4101
>
>  I have since heard that all 2.6 devices use the standard
>  /sys/class/backlight/*/ method to control brightness and that we don't
>  need/want to support others.
>
>  So I have three options and I'd like some opinions:
>  1) Leave ipaq-sleep the way it is and ship a standard backlight
>  control script that can be overridden/changed per machine.  This still
>  allows the legacy gpe-conf method (the default right now)
>  2) Have ipaq-sleep write directly to /sys/class/backlight/*/ to tweak
>  the brightness and skip this whole mess
>  3) Have the option to select between 1&2 via conf file entry

I made a generic backlight control script that emulates the old
gpe-conf methods and enabled it by default.  It can easily be
overridden to the old behavior by changing ipaq-sleep.conf to point at
/usr/bin/bl instead of /usr/bin/bl-ctrl.  The code and recipe are in
the bugtracker.

>
>  Thanks!
>  Andrew
>