From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] [PATCH] Panasonic ACPI driver
Date: 15 Feb 2005 10:05:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108479925.2098.35.camel@d845pe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108066047.32630.5.camel@nouse.net>
We should not include this driver in the kernel.
Rather than adding additional platform-specific drivers,
we should be migrating away from those that we already have
to simpler generic drivers for video and hot-keys -- where
the platform-dependent (naming) is done in user-space where
it is more extensible and supportable.
We've already got video.c, and I believe that we should start
to migrate to something like Luming's hot-key driver (see
earlier acpi-devel posts) in 2.6.12.
If a platform has some unique feature that no other platform
in the world has, then that justifies a platform specific driver
for that unique feature. But for the common features, the
community will be better served by the simpler generic kernel
drivers that work on more systems.
thanks,
-Len
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-15 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-10 20:07 [PATCH] Panasonic ACPI driver Timo Hoenig
2005-02-15 15:05 ` Len Brown [this message]
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2005-03-15 8:53 ` [ACPI] " Timo Hoenig
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