From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido.box@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:03:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060802100314.GF7601@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CB288A.1010702@gmail.com>
Hi!
> 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?
Wrong interface?
Convert it to use /sys/class/backlight sysfs interface...
Pavel
--
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-02 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-29 9:21 Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion Alessandro Guido
2006-08-02 10:03 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-08-02 14:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-05 10:43 ` Alessandro Guido
2006-08-05 23:23 ` Pavel Machek
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