From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hughes Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:36:36 +0000 Message-ID: <1167946596.6816.7.camel@hughsie-laptop> References: <49814.213.30.172.234.1159357906.squirrel@webmail.popies.net> <200701040024.29793.lenb@kernel.org> <1167905384.7763.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070104191512.GC25619@inferi.kami.home> <20070104125107.b82db604.akpm@osdl.org> <20070104211830.GD25619@inferi.kami.home> <20070104132834.99a585c9.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:38565 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965089AbXADVgn (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:36:43 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so5541710uga for ; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:36:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20070104132834.99a585c9.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Mattia Dongili , Stelian Pop , Len Brown , Ismail Donmez , Andrea Gelmini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Cacy Rodney On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 13:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:18:30 +0100 > Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > > The place to start (please) is the patches in -mm: > > > > > > 2.6-sony_acpi4.patch > > > sony_apci-resume.patch > > > sony_apci-resume-fix.patch > > > acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi.patch > > > acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi-v2.patch > > > video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register-sony_acpi-fix.patch > > > > > > It presently has both the /proc and /sys/.../backlight/.. interfaces, so the first > > > job would be to chop out the /proc stuff. > > > > Ok, I'll import all of them and start from there. > > Is it ok to wipe all the /proc stuff without notice? > > spose so. I don't know if any apps are dependent upon the /proc file, > but the driver isn't in mainline yet so it's unlikely that there's a > mountain of software depending upon existing interfaces. Well, HAL has used it for changing the brightness for the last year or so: /proc/acpi/sony/brightness Although if you use a new enough HAL (CVS), the laptop will be supported via the shiny new backlight class. Richard.