On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 15:24 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:54:43AM -0500, Charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Hello-- > > > > Please apply the following patch to toshiba_acpi.c. This patch has > > existed for about five years and is necessary for proper operation of > > some tools on toshiba laptops with toshiba BIOSes (such as toshset > > http://www.schwieters.org/toshset/). > > Why are the toshset features not being added to the toshiba_acpi driver? > Because it makes far more sense to have a user mode program to drive the features, and for the kernel to provide the necessary thin layer to access the features. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom. -- 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
