Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751301AbVLNF5g (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:57:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751055AbVLNF5g (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:57:36 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13258 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751301AbVLNF5f (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:57:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:57:11 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Yu, Luming" Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stelian@popies.net, malattia@linux.it, len.brown@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sonypi: convert to the new platform device interface Message-Id: <20051213215711.73a79800.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F840A6A9A2D@pdsmsx403> References: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F840A6A9A2D@pdsmsx403> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 15 "Yu, Luming" wrote: > > But, from my understanding, sonypi.c should be cleanly implemented in ACPI. > heh, good luck. I've spent a decent chunk of this week making Linux suck less than 100% on a new Vaio, Am currently at 95%. Poking things into sonypi's /proc/acpi/brightness is the only way known of controlling the screen brightness. One of the mysterious and undocumented ACPI calls will do it, but we don't know which, nor how. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/