Hi, 27 Eyl 2006 Çar 09:04 tarihinde, Len Brown şunları yazmıştı: [...] > > > Will sony_acpi ever make it to the mainline? Its very useful for new > > > Vaio models. > > Nope, not as it is. Useful != supportable. > > 1. It must not create any files under /proc/acpi > This is creating a machine-specific API, which > is exactly what we don't want Nobody can maintain > 50 machine specific APIs. > > These objects must appear generic and under sysfs > as if acpi were not involved in providing them. > > 2. its source code shall not live in drivers/acpi > it is not part of the ACPI implementation after all -- > it is a platform specific driver. Is there a such example code under kernel now, so one could look at it and fix sony_acpi driver. Regards, ismail -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
