From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not compile Sony Vaio extras as a module per default Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:24:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20061023122411.GB4979@gollum.tnic> References: <20061022063924.GA7177@gollum.tnic> <20061022091054.3fc8596b.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Reply-To: petkov@math.uni-muenster.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from smtp101.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.53.26]:34898 "HELO smtp101.plus.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964968AbWJWRmI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:42:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061022091054.3fc8596b.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jan Engelhardt , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:10:54AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:54:30 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > >--- current/drivers/acpi/Kconfig.orig 2006-10-21 10:02:23.00000000= 0 +0200 > > >+++ current/drivers/acpi/Kconfig 2006-10-21 10:02:30.000000000 +02= 00 > > >@@ -262,7 +262,6 @@ config ACPI_SONY > > > tristate "Sony Laptop Extras" > > > depends on X86 && ACPI > > > select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE > > >- default m > > > ---help--- > > > This mini-driver drives the ACPI SNC device present in the > > > ACPI BIOS of the Sony Vaio laptops. > >=20 > > Reason? >=20 > This is the third such patch/request that I recall for this > one. It's =3Dm for Andrew (one of his machines). > Otherwise the patch makes sense and should be merged... >=20 > --- > ~Randy We already turned off the Toshiba extras module some time ago since the= majority of us don't necessarily have the aforementioned machine (see commit f9a204e1de73a7007de66fb289e1d64a7665c9b4 in Linus' tree) but if this on= e is different, then so be it. I still think, though, that it makes more sen= se to leave stuff turned on in case it is needed in the most profiles of kern= el usage and leave not so common features off and let people turn them on only f= or their special case. --=20 Regards/Gru=DF, Boris. =09 ___________________________________________________________=20 Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de= =0D - 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