On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:54:47 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > I just wanted to know if there was a reason a patch was still needed > against 2.6.25-rc kernels. On ibm-acpi.sf.net there's a patch against > -rc4 (wich applies cleanly against -rc5 but not against -rc6). Without > it, thinkpad-acpi doesn't show any acpi event when I use the Fn keys. Is > there a reason the patch can be merged in rc kernels? Currently, it > seems the 2.6.25 thinkpad-acpi will be quite useless at least on T61. There was a breakage in drivers/acpi/ec.c, which Henrique solved on his own until a patch was in Linus' tree. With -rc6 you should be able to remove the drivers/acpi/ec.c part from the thinkpad-acpi patch for -rc4 and it *should* apply (did not test yet). The needed fix for ec.c is in http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4af8e10a6c57e7292862bd1703712f0565c7e429 (and in -rc6). So no, thinkpad-acpi won't be useless in 2.6.25. Regards Evgeni ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
