Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 20:25 +0100, Mattia Dongili a écrit : > > Presumably there is some application that talks to those ioctls. > > Yep, sonypid spicctrl sjog sonykeyd just to name a few. Don't forget also kde and hal... [...] > Fortunately I own a type2 and a couple of type3 laptops but none of > which has a motion eye camera. Leave the motion eye camera alone, the Linux support for the motion eye camera is only for a very old specific model of the motion eye camera (the PCI one made by Kawasaki). All the recent (last 5 years) Vaio laptops with "Motion Eye" cameras are completly different hardware. [...] > At one point sonypi could just implement the ioctls and device file > needed for backward compatibility. > But I need to start playing seriously with sonypi's code before getting > a clear idea if this is really doable or not. > > Stelian: thoughts? > I remember an (very?) old discussion where you've been asked to > implement sonypi using acpi functions and the answer was something like > "if acpi will allow that..." Hmm, this was probably from a time when the ACPI layer had zero external APIs. Things have changed since then and should be much easier now, especially since you have Len's support :) -- 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
