From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stelian Pop Subject: Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:07:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1171145280.5026.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <11709622011964-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <1171028098.6387.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <56393.85.47.20.193.1171029689.squirrel@picard.linux.it> <200702091158.18909.lenb@kernel.org> <20070209192513.GA4612@inferi.kami.home> 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]:4930 "EHLO sd291.sivit.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752016AbXBJWID (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:08:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070209192513.GA4612@inferi.kami.home> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mattia Dongili Cc: Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Le vendredi 09 f=E9vrier 2007 =E0 20:25 +0100, Mattia Dongili a =E9crit= : > > Presumably there is some application that talks to those ioctls. >=20 > 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 getti= ng > a clear idea if this is really doable or not. >=20 > Stelian: thoughts? > I remember an (very?) old discussion where you've been asked to > implement sonypi using acpi functions and the answer was something li= ke > "if acpi will allow that..." Hmm, this was probably from a time when the ACPI layer had zero externa= l APIs. Things have changed since then and should be much easier now, especially since you have Len's support :) --=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