[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] Description for "Backlight" property in randrproto.txt

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Tue Aug 18 15:28:35 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:31 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:

> Also I noted that the intel driver current uses BACKLIGHT as the
> property name - I thought we all agreed that we wouldn't use any
> ALL_CAPS names any more. Is this a left-over, or just an oversight?

It's unchanged from the initial implementation.

> And how to deal with this? Renaming this to Backlight in the driver
> probably won't do any good, as some tools are already using the
> BACKLIGHT one. Shall the implementation provide both cases for a while?
> 
> Also xbacklight should probably be changed to use Backlight if possible.

Yup, these both sound sensible. Sorry for using ALL_CAPS :-)

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keith.packard at intel.com
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