Re: what about the sony_acpi driver?

[Stefan Seyfried <seife-bro8zJjCcIc@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:01:11PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:
 
> I went through the DSDT and SSDTs, found that there is a specific ACPI device
> : SNC whose _HID is SNY5001. In the scope of this device, there are several
> Methods defined but no callers. So, I think sony_acpi.c won't give your
> ability to control things through real hot-keys. right?

exactly, this is what i meant with "No hotkeys, this is sony cr*p", sorry for
not being more clear, but i can "echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sony/brightness" which is 
better than nothing. :-)

> If you need to use
> hotkey on keyboard to control, you have to try sonypi driver. Because I

Sonypi does not work on newer machines (something gets detected, but i get
no events or actions from it)

> didn't find any
> GPEs related to hot-key methods, which are must-have for
> acpi-generic-hotkey-driver.

Yes, there is no hotkey functionality with sony_acpi or with sonypi either.

> I prefer integrate the quirks of sony_acpi.c into
> generic hotkey driver.

I am fine with that, i just had the impression that the generic hotkey and
video drivers are a bit like "vapourware" while the specific ones exist.
I agree that having working generic drivers is best, but people need 
something to work with until they are ready ;-)

Thanks for looking into this.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried


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