Re: rawhide report: 20070207 changes

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

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.