From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Morton, Andrew" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Create sony-laptop
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:37:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170884260.5674.10.camel@masamune.kami.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702071550.35808.lenb@kernel.org>
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:50 -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> Thanks for the follow-up Mattia,
>
> I've added this patch series to the acpi-test tree,
> and added Lindent patch on top of it. I'll double check
> that it has all the patches from -mm and NAK those
> when I do, so andrew doesn't get messed up.
Thanks a lot Len!
> However, some things need to be addressed
> before it can go upstream:
>
> What happens to sonypi?
Currently it's still needed, it deals with a different ACPI device (SPIC
instead of SNC). I'm still attempting to undrerstand how it could be
merged into sony-laptop. Will try to followup soon with more about that.
You can see them in DSDTs here:
http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/DSDT.sz72b.dsl
http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/DSDT.ux50.dsl
> Where is the patch to update MAINTAINERS for sony-laptop?
> Documentation/acpi/sony_acpi.txt needs a revision, and a re-name,
> and the Kconfig help text needs a revision too.
Yup, will send them asap (tomorrow, time to sleep here now).
> Finally, I don't have a Sony laptop so I can't test this.
> I'd like to see successful test feedback from Andrew,
> Luming, and other Sony owners before we push it.
Ok, I tested the driver on 2 recent models: SZ72B and UX50.
> ps. I recommend that at some point you globally replace "sony_acpi"
> in the driver with just "sony".
Ok.
Thanks again
--
mattia
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-07 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-07 19:01 [PATCH 0/4] sony_acpi-0.4: morph into sony-laptop malattia
2007-02-07 19:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] Create sony-laptop malattia
2007-02-07 19:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] Remove /proc/acpi/sony interface and implement platform_device malattia
2007-02-07 19:01 ` [PATCH 3/4] Small update to the Kconfig help to make people believe this driver is useful malattia
2007-02-07 19:01 ` [PATCH 4/4] Group functions and structures to better draw subsytems usage malattia
2007-02-10 1:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] Remove /proc/acpi/sony interface and implement platform_device Alessandro Guido
2007-02-10 12:49 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-02-07 20:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] Create sony-laptop Len Brown
2007-02-07 21:37 ` Mattia Dongili [this message]
2007-02-08 9:04 ` Andrew Morton
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