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From: malattia@linux.it
To: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>,
	Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Subject: [patch 4/9 v2] sonypi: suggest sonypi users to try sony-laptop instead
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:22:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070428142211.GD5293@inferi.kami.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070428141557.GA4764@inferi.kami.home

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Try to migrate sonypi users to sony-laptop gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
---
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/sonypi.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/sonypi.c	2007-04-25 13:08:11.676054561 +0900
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/sonypi.c	2007-04-25 16:19:38.830670196 +0900
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
  * Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver for VAIO
  *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
+ *
  * Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2005 Narayanan R S <nars@kadamba.org>
@@ -1321,6 +1323,10 @@ static int __devinit sonypi_probe(struct
 	struct pci_dev *pcidev;
 	int error;
 
+	printk(KERN_WARNING "sonypi: please try the sony-laptop module instead "
+			"and report failures, see also "
+			"http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony_drivers\n");
+
 	spin_lock_init(&sonypi_device.fifo_lock);
 	sonypi_device.fifo = kfifo_alloc(SONYPI_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL,
 					 &sonypi_device.fifo_lock);

--
mattia
:wq!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-28 14:15 [patch 0/9 v2] sony drivers: finish rewriting sonypi and updates malattia
2007-04-28 14:18 ` [patch 1/9 v2] sony-laptop: add camera enable/disable parameter, better handle possible infinite loop malattia
2007-04-28 14:19 ` [patch 2/9 v2] sony-laptop: add locking on accesses to the ioport and global vars malattia
2007-04-28 14:21 ` [patch 3/9 v2] sony-laptop: add edge modem support (also called WWAN) malattia
2007-04-28 14:22 ` malattia [this message]
2007-04-28 14:34 ` [patch 5/9 v2] sonypi: try to detect if sony-laptop has already taken one of the known ioports malattia
2007-04-28 14:34 ` [patch 6/9 v2] sony-laptop: complete the motion eye camera support in sony-laptop malattia
2007-04-28 14:34 ` [patch 7/9 v2] sony-laptop: add a meye-usable include file for camera ops malattia
2007-04-28 14:36 ` [patch 8/9 v2] meye: make meye use sony-laptop instead of sonypi malattia
2007-04-28 14:36 ` [patch 9/9 v2] sony-laptop: remove user visible camera controls as platform attributes malattia
2007-04-29  4:42 ` [patch 0/9 v2] sony drivers: finish rewriting sonypi and updates Len Brown

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