From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>,
Andrea Gelmini <gelma@gelma.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:09:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167905384.7763.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701040024.29793.lenb@kernel.org>
Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 à 00:24 -0500, Len Brown a écrit :
> > > I'd like to keep this driver out-of-tree
> > > until we prove that we can't enhance the
> > > generic code to handle this hardware
> > > without the addition of a new driver.
> >
> > How long is this going to take ?
>
> How about 2.6.21?
Good news !
> What needs to happen is
> 1. a maintainer for sony_acpi.c needs to step forward
> I can't do this, I'm not allowed to be in the reverse engineering business.
Well, I can't do this either, because I just don't have the required
hardware anymore.
If someone want to step forward now it is a great time !
>
> 2. /proc/acpi/sony API needs to be deleted
>
> 3. source needs to move out of drivers/acpi, and into drivers/misc along with msi.
Sensible suggestions, the new maintainer will have to work on this.
Thanks Len.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-04 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-27 11:51 sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP stelian
2006-09-28 16:27 ` Yu Luming
2007-01-04 5:24 ` Len Brown
2007-01-04 10:09 ` Stelian Pop [this message]
2007-01-04 19:15 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 20:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 21:18 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 21:36 ` Timo Hoenig
2007-01-04 21:36 ` Richard Hughes
2007-01-04 21:58 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05 17:02 ` Len Brown
2007-01-05 18:06 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 23:36 ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-04 23:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 23:54 ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05 4:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-05 9:58 ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05 2:20 ` MoRpHeUz
2007-01-05 17:11 ` Sony Vaio VGN-SZ340 (was Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP) Len Brown
2007-01-05 17:24 ` MoRpHeUz
2007-01-05 18:10 ` Len Brown
2007-01-06 4:09 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-01-11 19:52 ` Len Brown
2007-01-11 20:01 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-01-05 0:11 ` sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-05 9:15 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05 9:59 ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-04 23:34 ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05 9:23 ` Neil Bird
2007-01-05 16:24 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-10 8:32 ` Neil Bird
2007-01-11 12:20 ` sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP [repost] Neil Bird
2007-01-05 17:19 ` sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Len Brown
2007-01-10 8:36 ` Neil Bird
2007-01-11 12:20 ` sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP [repost] Neil Bird
2007-01-05 10:02 ` sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Stelian Pop
2007-01-05 12:13 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05 14:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-09 15:19 ` Luming Yu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-04 17:58 Cacy Rodney
2007-01-05 17:33 ` Len Brown
2007-01-05 19:10 ` Mattia Dongili
[not found] <20060926135659.GA3685@jnb.gelma.net>
[not found] ` <45195583.4090500@popies.net>
[not found] ` <200609262056.32052.ismail@pardus.org.tr>
2006-09-27 5:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-27 5:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-27 6:04 ` Len Brown
2006-09-27 7:50 ` Ismail Donmez
2006-09-28 15:48 ` Yu Luming
2006-09-27 16:26 ` Andrea Gelmini
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