On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:37:18PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > NAK. > > this was already relplaced by the panasonic driver in the acpi tree. > > Is this in 2.6.27, or was it a 2.6.28 addition? For some reason, I had > reports from openSUSE users that 2.6.27 still didn't work properly and > needed this driver. > > How about the new "pcc-acpi-cdrom" driver hack? Hiroshi, is that needed > still with the 2.6.27 kernel? drivers/misc/panasonic-laptop.c is staged for 2.6.28: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git;a=history;f=drivers/misc/panasonic-laptop.c;h=a2cb598d8ab54a98000d1f31f7c2407924399a5e;hb=test > > Greg, > > If it has the word "acpi" in it, please check with me before > > putting something in the staging tree, for I'd prefer to > > stage such things in the acpi tree. > > Ok, I didn't know you wanted "uncleaned" drivers in your tree, I'll > remember this for the future :) AFAICK, the driver that was checked into staging tree was based on an older version of the driver already staged in the acpi tree. I think that the staging tree isn't helping us in this scenario. thanks, -Len -- 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
