On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:15:12 +0100 Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:09:44AM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > > Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 __ 00:24 -0500, Len Brown a __crit : > > > > > > > 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 ! > > I have the hw and I'd be happy to do some basic working on the code Neato, thanks. > but: > - I'll probably need some help; > - I'll have an almost-blackout between the end of February and the end > of April as I'm moving to a different country and I'll need some time > before I can be active again (I hope I'll have at least easy mail > access for all the time though). > Anyway if it is still ok I can maintain the thing, to months seems > enough to give the driver a shape. > > > > 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. > > And turn extra-backlight features into platform_device stuff? So 2 and 3 > can come together. > > Moreover, I own an SZ72B and an older GR7 and have come to the same > findings of Cacy, plus a patch to allow a smarter "debug" mode. > So, how to proceed? (I've just cloned the linux-acpi-2.6 tree) > I have a VGN-something-or-other notebook and I use this driver regularly. The place to start (please) is the patches in -mm: 2.6-sony_acpi4.patch sony_apci-resume.patch sony_apci-resume-fix.patch acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi.patch acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi-v2.patch video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register-sony_acpi-fix.patch It presently has both the /proc and /sys/.../backlight/.. interfaces, so the first job would be to chop out the /proc stuff. - 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
