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From: Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido.box@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:43:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D47661.8080000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060802100314.GF7601@ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> I own a Sony VAIO laptop that uses ACPI for setting 
>> screen brightness
>> through the "2.6-sony_acpi4.patch" patch that has been 
>> living in -mm for a while.
>> I'd like this patch to be merged in mainline, so that I 
>> won't be forced anymore to patch
>> the kernel by hand or to use the -mm patchset.
>> Is there something that prevents this to happen?
> 
> Wrong interface?
> 
> Convert it to use /sys/class/backlight sysfs interface...
> 
> 						Pavel

Thank you for repling!

I found a patch that does it in the mailing list archives,
although I've not tested if it can be still applied correctly:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=113950408508944&w=2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-05 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-29  9:21 Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion Alessandro Guido
2006-08-02 10:03 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-02 14:34   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-05 10:43   ` Alessandro Guido [this message]
2006-08-05 23:23     ` Pavel Machek

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