Re: Re: [patch 11/12] new sony_acpi driver

Timo Hoenig
2005-03-03T08:40:45Z

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On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:53 +0100, Stelian Pop wrote:
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>
>I have no problem keeping it out of the tree, it has been this was
>for quite a long time now. Anyway the distro maintainers are starting
>to put it into their kernels so it won't be a problem for endusers
>any longer. BTW, it was those distro maintainers who asked me to
>resubmit the driver lately...
>
I guess you're talking about me. I did not contact you being a distro
maintainer. As developer, my intention was -- and still is -- that we
really should get as many laptop specific functions into mainline as
possible. I care about happy users.

It's a shame that there are actually drivers out there but users simply
do not benefit from them because they are not merged with mainline.

Anyway, as Len proposed, a generic solution is definitely the best
solution. Let's get this work done.

>But still, I don't see why there is no place for a sony acpi somewhere
>where there are already drivers for ibm, toshiba and asus laptops.

They will disappear once the generic solution is implemented.

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>
>Stelian.

See you,

-- Timo

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