Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)

[Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>]

Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 20:25 +0100, Mattia Dongili a écrit :

> > Presumably there is some application that talks to those ioctls.
> 
> Yep, sonypid spicctrl sjog sonykeyd just to name a few.

Don't forget also kde and hal...

[...]

> Fortunately I own a type2 and a couple of type3 laptops but none of
> which has a motion eye camera.

Leave the motion eye camera alone, the Linux support for the motion eye
camera is only for a very old specific model of the motion eye camera
(the PCI one made by Kawasaki). All the recent (last 5 years) Vaio
laptops with "Motion Eye" cameras are completly different hardware.

[...]

> At one point sonypi could just implement the ioctls and device file
> needed for backward compatibility.
> But I need to start playing seriously with sonypi's code before getting
> a clear idea if this is really doable or not.
> 
> Stelian: thoughts?
> I remember an (very?) old discussion where you've been asked to
> implement sonypi using acpi functions and the answer was something like
> "if acpi will allow that..."

Hmm, this was probably from a time when the ACPI layer had zero external
APIs. Things have changed since then and should be much easier now,
especially since you have Len's support :)

-- 
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>

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