From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stelian Pop Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:09:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1167905384.7763.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <49814.213.30.172.234.1159357906.squirrel@webmail.popies.net> <200701040024.29793.lenb@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from sd291.sivit.org ([194.146.225.122]:3265 "EHLO sd291.sivit.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932352AbXADKlP (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 05:41:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200701040024.29793.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Andrew Morton , Ismail Donmez , Andrea Gelmini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 =E0 00:24 -0500, Len Brown a =E9crit : > > > 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. > >=20 > > How long is this going to take ? >=20 > 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 ! >=20 > 2. /proc/acpi/sony API needs to be deleted >=20 > 3. source needs to move out of drivers/acpi, and into drivers/misc al= ong with msi. Sensible suggestions, the new maintainer will have to work on this. Thanks Len. --=20 Stelian Pop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html