* Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion
@ 2006-07-29 9:21 Alessandro Guido
2006-08-02 10:03 ` Pavel Machek
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Alessandro Guido @ 2006-07-29 9:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: linux-acpi
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?
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* Re: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion
2006-07-29 9:21 Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion Alessandro Guido
@ 2006-08-02 10:03 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-02 14:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-05 10:43 ` Alessandro Guido
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Machek @ 2006-08-02 10:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alessandro Guido; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-acpi
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
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Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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* Re: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion
2006-08-02 10:03 ` Pavel Machek
@ 2006-08-02 14:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-05 10:43 ` Alessandro Guido
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jan Engelhardt @ 2006-08-02 14:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pavel Machek; +Cc: Alessandro Guido, linux-kernel, linux-acpi
>> 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...
FWIW, the patch works without having to apply all of -mm.
Jan Engelhardt
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* Re: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion
2006-08-02 10:03 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-02 14:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
@ 2006-08-05 10:43 ` Alessandro Guido
2006-08-05 23:23 ` Pavel Machek
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Alessandro Guido @ 2006-08-05 10:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pavel Machek; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-acpi
Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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
Thank you for repling!
I found a patch that does it in the mailing list archives,
although I've not tested if it can be still applied correctly:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=113950408508944&w=2
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