From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:02:30 -0500 Message-ID: <200701051202.31208.lenb@kernel.org> References: <49814.213.30.172.234.1159357906.squirrel@webmail.popies.net> <1167946596.6816.7.camel@hughsie-laptop> <20070104215810.GE25619@inferi.kami.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:44494 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161156AbXAEREW (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:04:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070104215810.GE25619@inferi.kami.home> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mattia Dongili Cc: Richard Hughes , Andrew Morton , Stelian Pop , Ismail Donmez , Andrea Gelmini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Cacy Rodney > > 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. > > great, -mm already has the /sys/class/backlight in place for sony_acpi > and I suppose the /proc entry can be kept until 2.6.20 is released, i.e. > just before pushing things for .21. > > Len, would you allow it? Sure, no problem. Checking it into my tree with /proc/acpi/sony is no different than what is in -mm today. When we push upstream, however, the /proc/acpi/sony part should be gone, or at least scheduled for removal. I suggest a sub CONFIG option under CONFIG_SONY_ACPI, say, CONFIG_SONY_ACPI_PROCFS so you can #ifdef the code that is going away. thanks for stepping forward Mattia, -Len