The patch titled eeepc-laptop.c: don't enable camera at startup if it's already on. has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is eeepc-laptopc-dont-enable-camera-at-startup-if-its-already-on.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: eeepc-laptop.c: don't enable camera at startup if it's already on. From: Luca Niccoli <lultimouomo@xxxxxxxxx> Switching the camera takes 500ms, checking if it's on is almost free... The BIOS remembers the setting through reboots, so there's good chance the camera is already enabled. Signed-off-by: Luca Niccoli <lultimouomo@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -puN drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c~eeepc-laptopc-dont-enable-camera-at-startup-if-its-already-on drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c --- a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c~eeepc-laptopc-dont-enable-camera-at-startup-if-its-already-on +++ a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c @@ -356,7 +356,8 @@ static void __devinit eeepc_enable_camer * If the following call to set_acpi() fails, it's because there's no * camera so we can ignore the error. */ - set_acpi(CM_ASL_CAMERA, 1); + if (get_acpi(CM_ASL_CAMERA) == 0) + set_acpi(CM_ASL_CAMERA, 1); } /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lultimouomo@xxxxxxxxx are eeepc-laptopc-dont-enable-camera-at-startup-if-its-already-on.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html