Re: [PATCH 1/4] Create sony-laptop

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

Thanks for the follow-up Mattia, 

I've added this patch series to the acpi-test tree,
and added Lindent patch on top of it.  I'll double check
that it has all the patches from -mm and NAK those
when I do, so andrew doesn't get messed up.

However, some things need to be addressed
before it can go upstream:

What happens to sonypi?
Where is the patch to update MAINTAINERS for sony-laptop?
Documentation/acpi/sony_acpi.txt needs a revision, and a re-name,
and the Kconfig help text needs a revision too.

Finally, I don't have a Sony laptop so I can't test this.
I'd like to see successful test feedback from Andrew,
Luming, and other Sony owners before we push it.

thanks,
-Len

ps. I recommend that at some point you globally replace "sony_acpi"
in the driver with just "sony".


On Wednesday 07 February 2007 14:01, malattia@linux.it wrote:
> From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
> 
> 
> Move drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.c to drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c with all the
> necessary configuration.
> The SONY_LAPTOP config option substitutes the old ACPI_SONY and is 'default n'
> now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/Kconfig       |   15 --
>  drivers/acpi/Makefile      |    1 -
>  drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.c   |  504 --------------------------------------------
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig       |   14 ++
>  drivers/misc/Makefile      |    1 +
>  drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c |  504 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 519 insertions(+), 520 deletions(-)
>