Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion

Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion

[Alessandro Guido]

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?

Re: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion

[Pavel Machek]

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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Re: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> 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

[Alessandro Guido]

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

Re: Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion

[Pavel Machek]

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...
> 
> 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

Yep, that looks like a good starting point. Plus "old" backlight
interface should be removed so that we don't have to support two of
them for 2+ years.
							Pavel
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