Hi,
this is another ACPI driver for several Panasonic notebooks. The driver
provides support for hotkeys and enables access to other hardware like
reading/setting the LCD brightness.
Like the Sony ACPI driver--recently sent by Stelian Pop--it would be
good to to see this one to be integrated into the -mm tree, too.
The attached patch is against 2.6.11-rc3.
Thanks,
-- Timo
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Timo H?nig <thoenig at suse dot de>
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We should not include this driver in the kernel.
Rather than adding additional platform-specific drivers,
we should be migrating away from those that we already have
to simpler generic drivers for video and hot-keys -- where
the platform-dependent (naming) is done in user-space where
it is more extensible and supportable.
We've already got video.c, and I believe that we should start
to migrate to something like Luming's hot-key driver (see
earlier acpi-devel posts) in 2.6.12.
If a platform has some unique feature that no other platform
in the world has, then that justifies a platform specific driver
for that unique feature. But for the common features, the
community will be better served by the simpler generic kernel
drivers that work on more systems.
thanks,
-Len