On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:12 -0500, John Belmonte wrote: > The proposed patch makes /dev/toshiba, and hence toshset, work on more > laptops-- it's a no-brainer to anyone with a practical mindset. Making toshset work is not a practical goal. Making hardware "just work" without any vendor specific commands is a better goal. Exposing low level, device specific, hardware details up through a device node isn't a good plan at all. Richard. -- 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