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From: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>,
	Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>,
	Andrea Gelmini <gelma@gelma.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	Cacy Rodney <cacy-rodney-cacy@tlen.pl>
Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:36:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167946596.6816.7.camel@hughsie-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070104132834.99a585c9.akpm@osdl.org>

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 13:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:18:30 +0100
> Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:
> 
> > > The place to start (please) is the patches in -mm:
> > > 
> > > 2.6-sony_acpi4.patch
> > > sony_apci-resume.patch
> > > sony_apci-resume-fix.patch
> > > acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi.patch
> > > acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi-v2.patch
> > > video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register-sony_acpi-fix.patch
> > > 
> > > It presently has both the /proc and /sys/.../backlight/.. interfaces, so the first
> > > job would be to chop out the /proc stuff.
> > 
> > Ok, I'll import all of them and start from there.
> > Is it ok to wipe all the /proc stuff without notice?
> 
> spose so.  I don't know if any apps are dependent upon the /proc file,
> but the driver isn't in mainline yet so it's unlikely that there's a
> mountain of software depending upon existing interfaces.

Well, HAL has used it for changing the brightness for the last year or
so: /proc/acpi/sony/brightness

Although if you use a new enough HAL (CVS), the laptop will be supported
via the shiny new backlight class.

Richard.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-04 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-27 11:51 sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP stelian
2006-09-28 16:27 ` Yu Luming
2007-01-04  5:24 ` Len Brown
2007-01-04 10:09   ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-04 19:15     ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 20:51       ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 21:18         ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 21:28           ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 21:36             ` Timo Hoenig
2007-01-04 21:36             ` Richard Hughes [this message]
2007-01-04 21:58               ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05 17:02                 ` Len Brown
2007-01-05 18:06                   ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 23:36         ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-04 23:44           ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 23:54             ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05  4:16               ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-05  9:58                 ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05  2:20             ` MoRpHeUz
2007-01-05 17:11               ` Sony Vaio VGN-SZ340 (was Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP) Len Brown
2007-01-05 17:24                 ` MoRpHeUz
2007-01-05 18:10                   ` Len Brown
2007-01-06  4:09                     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-01-11 19:52                       ` Len Brown
2007-01-11 20:01                         ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-01-05  0:11           ` sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-05  9:15             ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05  9:59             ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-04 23:34       ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05 10:02       ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05 12:13         ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05 14:23           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-09 15:19   ` Luming Yu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-26 13:56 Andrea Gelmini
2006-09-26 16:29 ` Stelian Pop
2006-09-26 17:56   ` Ismail Donmez
2006-09-27  5:14     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-27  5:59       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-27  6:04       ` Len Brown
2006-09-27  7:50         ` Ismail Donmez
2006-09-28 15:48           ` Yu Luming
2006-09-27 16:26       ` Andrea Gelmini
2006-09-26 21:38   ` Andrea Gelmini

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