From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus_acpi, support F2JE model Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:17:36 +0200 Message-ID: <461D5070.7080902@gmail.com> References: <2189310342910921713@karneval.cz> <20070411132053.899462b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <461D45CE.3030309@gmail.com> <461D46EF.2040805@gmail.com> <20070411140655.6dd2cb3f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.185]:40523 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753650AbXDKVRh (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:17:37 -0400 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so377563muf for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:17:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070411140655.6dd2cb3f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, corentincj@iksaif.net, sziwan@users.sourceforge.net, acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, len.brown@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton napsal(a): > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:37:03 +0200 > Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> Jiri Slaby napsal(a): >>> Side note, as Danny wrote, there is an asus-laptop driver sitting in -mm, >>> which supersedes this one -- if you plan to push it upstream in the near >>> future, don't bother with this patch. >> Hmm, there is a 0.40 version in -rc6 yet. There is something weird with me >> today. >> > > I don't know what you mean by this. Oh, 0.40 version, which is in 2.6.21-rc6's drivers/misc/ directory would "contain" the changes, which are in my patch -- so I thought it's useless, but the driver is still marked as EXPERIMENTAL, so: > If your patch is still good then I'd be inclined to proceed with it - yes, > there's a new driver in Len's tree but I assume we'll be maintaining the > old one until the new one is proven to be a successful replacement. as you wrote, we might want the patch for the old one to go through if nobody has objections. thanks, sorry for the confusion, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E