From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751947Ab1AUJaj (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:30:39 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33363 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750844Ab1AUJah (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:30:37 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:30:13 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Hennerich, Michael" Cc: Mike Frysinger , "device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Richard Purdie Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: new driver for the ADP8870 backlight devices Message-Id: <20110121013013.076a0fed.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <544AC56F16B56944AEC3BD4E3D591771324C0A8C6F@LIMKCMBX1.ad.analog.com> References: <1294794049-17337-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <20110120164816.5afa0561.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <544AC56F16B56944AEC3BD4E3D591771324C0A8C6F@LIMKCMBX1.ad.analog.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:25:50 +0000 "Hennerich, Michael" wrote: > > Is the sysfs API documented anywhere? > > Yes - http://wiki-analog.com/software/driver/linux/adp8870 > I guess you are asking me to write something that goes into linux-2.6.x/Documentation? That would be nice, please. Documentation/ABI/, perhaps. In an ideal world, documentation wouldn't be necessary because all backlight drivers offer the same (or sufficiently similar) interfaces, so one generic document describes them all. I don't know how close we are to that however.