From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alessandro Guido Subject: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:21:14 +0200 Message-ID: <44CB288A.1010702@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.228]:15944 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbWG2JTh (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:19:37 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i21so40185wra for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Dear kernel developers, I own a Sony VAIO laptop that uses ACPI for setting screen brightness through the "2.6-sony_acpi4.patch" patch that has been living in -mm for a while. I'd like this patch to be merged in mainline, so that I won't be forced anymore to patch the kernel by hand or to use the -mm patchset. Is there something that prevents this to happen?