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										 |  |  | What:		/sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/bl_power | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Date:		April 2005 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | KernelVersion:	2.6.12 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Contact:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Description: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		Control BACKLIGHT power, values are FB_BLANK_* from fb.h | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 - FB_BLANK_UNBLANK (0)   : power on. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		 - FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN (4) : power off | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Users:		HAL | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | What:		/sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/brightness | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Date:		April 2005 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | KernelVersion:	2.6.12 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Contact:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Description: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		Control the brightness for this <backlight>. Values | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		are between 0 and max_brightness. This file will also | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		show the brightness level stored in the driver, which | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		may not be the actual brightness (see actual_brightness). | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Users:		HAL | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | What:		/sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/actual_brightness | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Date:		March 2006 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | KernelVersion:	2.6.17 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Contact:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Description: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		Show the actual brightness by querying the hardware. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Users:		HAL | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | What:		/sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/max_brightness | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Date:		April 2005 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | KernelVersion:	2.6.12 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Contact:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Description: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		Maximum brightness for <backlight>. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Users:		HAL | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | What:		/sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/type | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Date:		September 2010 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | KernelVersion:	2.6.37 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Contact:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | Description: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		The type of interface controlled by <backlight>. | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		"firmware": The driver uses a standard firmware interface | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		"platform": The driver uses a platform-specific interface | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		"raw": The driver controls hardware registers directly | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | 		In the general case, when multiple backlight | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		interfaces are available for a single device, firmware | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		control should be preferred to platform control should | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		be preferred to raw control. Using a firmware | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		interface reduces the probability of confusion with | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		the hardware and the OS independently updating the | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		backlight state. Platform interfaces are mostly a | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		holdover from pre-standardisation of firmware | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | 		interfaces. |