On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:44:23AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> The kernel provides a unified backlight API now, adding more
private
> hacks rather than moving them to the unified API sounds like a step
> backwards to me ..
I don't think smbios can be moved into the backlight kernel class as the
libsmbios library is written in C++ (IIRC) and is pretty huge.
So the library needs replacing with something that is maintainable and works,
in which case the argument applies even more strongly.