Subject: Re: [ACPI] [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver
From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:18, Stelian Pop wrote:,

> 
> PS: I am also going to submit a bugzilla RFE for the acpi people,
> I have been told they are more receptive to that.

I guess that refers to me:-)

E-mail is fine, but the unfortunate reality is that due to simple
volume, it is lossy.  The reason we like bugzilla is that it never
forgets:-)

So thanks for taking the extra time to file a bug report
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4193

If it turns out that there is no way a generic solution
can handle the SNC Sony laptops, then I agree that a
platform specific wart is the only way to go.  But
it would be best if we can make the exotic Sony/SNC
look more generic to the user so that the user
(and the distro supporting them) don't need to learn
special things to handle this system.

thanks,
-Len


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