From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15.3 1/1] ACPI: Atlas ACPI driver Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:28:19 +0000 Message-ID: <20060220112819.GA4837@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200602200213.k1K2DrDW013988@ns1.clipsalportal.com> <20060220102639.GA4342@srcf.ucam.org> <756b48450602200249k1b79b108u42bfef68e1e9dba8@mail.gmail.com> <20060220110145.GB4489@srcf.ucam.org> <756b48450602200325v28f0300cu8b4845ab9dba9a4c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [217.147.92.49] ([217.147.92.49]:42660 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932609AbWBTL26 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:28:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <756b48450602200325v28f0300cu8b4845ab9dba9a4c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jaya Kumar Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:25:26PM +0800, Jaya Kumar wrote: > I have some questions then. > 1. Are Patrick's acpi driver model changes considered to be a more > final approach that standardize everyone to some sysfs based interface > to userspace? I don't believe so. Backlight drivers will still need to register as such independently. It's just somewhat orthogonal. > Ok. I wish I'd known before. I scanned the mailing list before > mbarking on this to see if any issues were raised with toshiba and > asus driver code and didn't see anything. FWIW, my powers of mind > reading only work on Fridays. :-) I started sending patches a couple of weeks ago, but I need to tidy them up to apply against latest -mm. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org