From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timo Hoenig Subject: Re: Re: [patch 11/12] new sony_acpi driver Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:01:23 +0100 Message-ID: <1109844083.4866.25.camel@nouse.net> References: <20050303092725.GA3346@crusoe.alcove-fr> <1109842444.4866.16.camel@nouse.net> <20050303094554.GC3346@crusoe.alcove-fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-E7w2BoRvEqAMXNoI/224" In-Reply-To: <20050303094554.GC3346-KwDxFO93HejPHUqn3ntIkQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Stelian Pop Cc: "Brown, Len" , Andrew Morton , ACPI Developers List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org --=-E7w2BoRvEqAMXNoI/224 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:45 +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: [...] > >But the discussion here is pretty unrelated. We are talking about >the implementation not interface, and what Len wants is to remove >the specific {ibm,toshiba,asus} implementations and make generic ones=20 >based on the ACPI stantard. Ah, OK. I did not get this before. Then, we've got a problem. I mean, when looking at the different implementations of the drivers it is obvious that this will not work at all. For example, I'm thinking of the Toshiba HCI which needs to be polled to get hotkey information... So, I'd really appreciate to see a comment from Len about his thoughts which way to go. >Stelian. See you, -- Timo .............................................................. Timo H=F6nig ..................................................:: gpg ::... Fingerprint: 0998 0ACA A1D2 2612 4D96 DD8B E03F 084B B305 4066 --=-E7w2BoRvEqAMXNoI/224 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCJuBz4D8IS7MFQGYRApyYAJ416equ1TRbiwi58m+yOLLjm2RergCePxKv Xsjwejp8wNDJx/HtL/G66HM= =iSQJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-E7w2BoRvEqAMXNoI/224-- ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click