Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 à 00:24 -0500, Len Brown a écrit : > > > I'd like to keep this driver out-of-tree > > > until we prove that we can't enhance the > > > generic code to handle this hardware > > > without the addition of a new driver. > > > > How long is this going to take ? > > How about 2.6.21? Good news ! > What needs to happen is > 1. a maintainer for sony_acpi.c needs to step forward > I can't do this, I'm not allowed to be in the reverse engineering business. Well, I can't do this either, because I just don't have the required hardware anymore. If someone want to step forward now it is a great time ! > > 2. /proc/acpi/sony API needs to be deleted > > 3. source needs to move out of drivers/acpi, and into drivers/misc along with msi. Sensible suggestions, the new maintainer will have to work on this. Thanks Len. -- Stelian Pop <stelian@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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
