From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266304AbUHHVE1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:04:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266305AbUHHVE1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:04:27 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.200]:56292 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266304AbUHHVEN (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:04:13 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:04:10 +0200 From: Stefan Schweizer To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] omnibook / CONFIG_ACPI is not set / missing -Exxxx defs. In-Reply-To: <20040808132922.2c924bca.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200408071828.18174.pluto@pld-linux.org> <20040808132922.2c924bca.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew, I think he refers to the omnibook driver, that can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/ And it is needed for brightness/fan/temperature/buttons of omnibooks or acer aspire laptops like mine. Why do you not have it in the kernel and what can i do to get it in the kernel, so that i do not need to patch or compile external for everytime when I switch to a new kernel? Stefan