On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:27:44PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2007 21:43, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > Make the driver aware of this case and manage the existence of a > > second separate IO port. > > Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8803 > > Why is this marked as a regression vs 2.6.21? > Is the problem that sonypi supported this this type of box > and sony-laptop did not, and that is when the submitter > started using sony-laptop? > > They can still build and use sonypi in 2.6.22, 3 if they want, yes? yes but they can't use meye.ko which now (since .22) depends on sony-laptop loading correctly on their boxes. > I don't see a huge risk in applying this patch, because it > seems that it (should) only have an effect on the boxes > that were not properly supported before. yep, that's the purpose :) > But, it is pretty big for a post-rc2 type thing, > particularly if they can still use sonypi per above. > Probably appropriate to test it till 2.6.24. as said the problem is meye, but I agree it's not very appropriate as a post-rc2. Oh, and I seem to have some randomic Oops when loading the module (most probably unrelated to this patch). Let me re-doublecheck it all once 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
