From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
To: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:07:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171145280.5026.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070209192513.GA4612@inferi.kami.home>
Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 20:25 +0100, Mattia Dongili a écrit :
> > Presumably there is some application that talks to those ioctls.
>
> Yep, sonypid spicctrl sjog sonykeyd just to name a few.
Don't forget also kde and hal...
[...]
> Fortunately I own a type2 and a couple of type3 laptops but none of
> which has a motion eye camera.
Leave the motion eye camera alone, the Linux support for the motion eye
camera is only for a very old specific model of the motion eye camera
(the PCI one made by Kawasaki). All the recent (last 5 years) Vaio
laptops with "Motion Eye" cameras are completly different hardware.
[...]
> At one point sonypi could just implement the ioctls and device file
> needed for backward compatibility.
> But I need to start playing seriously with sonypi's code before getting
> a clear idea if this is really doable or not.
>
> Stelian: thoughts?
> I remember an (very?) old discussion where you've been asked to
> implement sonypi using acpi functions and the answer was something like
> "if acpi will allow that..."
Hmm, this was probably from a time when the ACPI layer had zero external
APIs. Things have changed since then and should be much easier now,
especially since you have Len's support :)
--
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-10 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-08 19:16 [PATCH 0/2] sony-laptop: docs and maintainer update malattia
2007-02-08 19:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer malattia
2007-02-08 19:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] Update sony-laptop docs malattia
2007-02-09 6:52 ` Len Brown
2007-02-09 6:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer Len Brown
2007-02-09 13:34 ` Stelian Pop
2007-02-09 14:01 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-02-09 16:58 ` sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer) Len Brown
2007-02-09 19:25 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-02-09 21:02 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-02-10 22:07 ` Stelian Pop [this message]
2007-02-10 21:59 ` Stelian Pop
2007-02-11 9:20 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-02-11 9:23 ` Stelian Pop
2007-02-10 18:06 ` [PATCH 1/1] New sony laptop drivers maintainer Mattia Dongili
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