On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:50 -0500, Len Brown wrote: > Thanks for the follow-up Mattia, > > I've added this patch series to the acpi-test tree, > and added Lindent patch on top of it. I'll double check > that it has all the patches from -mm and NAK those > when I do, so andrew doesn't get messed up. Thanks a lot Len! > However, some things need to be addressed > before it can go upstream: > > What happens to sonypi? Currently it's still needed, it deals with a different ACPI device (SPIC instead of SNC). I'm still attempting to undrerstand how it could be merged into sony-laptop. Will try to followup soon with more about that. You can see them in DSDTs here: http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/DSDT.sz72b.dsl http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/DSDT.ux50.dsl > Where is the patch to update MAINTAINERS for sony-laptop? > Documentation/acpi/sony_acpi.txt needs a revision, and a re-name, > and the Kconfig help text needs a revision too. Yup, will send them asap (tomorrow, time to sleep here now). > Finally, I don't have a Sony laptop so I can't test this. > I'd like to see successful test feedback from Andrew, > Luming, and other Sony owners before we push it. Ok, I tested the driver on 2 recent models: SZ72B and UX50. > ps. I recommend that at some point you globally replace "sony_acpi" > in the driver with just "sony". Ok. Thanks again -- mattia :wq - 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
