From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mattia Dongili Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 19:06:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20070105180659.GH13533@inferi.kami.home> References: <49814.213.30.172.234.1159357906.squirrel@webmail.popies.net> <1167946596.6816.7.camel@hughsie-laptop> <20070104215810.GE25619@inferi.kami.home> <200701051202.31208.lenb@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from aa014msr.fastwebnet.it ([85.18.95.74]:41050 "EHLO aa014msr.fastwebnet.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422651AbXAESHs (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:07:48 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701051202.31208.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Richard Hughes , Andrew Morton , Stelian Pop , Ismail Donmez , Andrea Gelmini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Cacy Rodney On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:02:30PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > > 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'd rather avoid pushing mainline something already scheduled for removal. Also, a workaround can eventually be implemented in the userspace tools using /proc/acpi/sony [...] > thanks for stepping forward Mattia, It's me who should thank :) Thanks -- mattia :wq!