Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965336AbWI0FOY (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:14:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965335AbWI0FOY (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:14:24 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:17055 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965332AbWI0FOX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:14:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:14:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ismail Donmez Cc: Stelian Pop , Andrea Gelmini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Brown, Len" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Message-Id: <20060926221400.5da1b796.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200609262056.32052.ismail@pardus.org.tr> References: <20060926135659.GA3685@jnb.gelma.net> <45195583.4090500@popies.net> <200609262056.32052.ismail@pardus.org.tr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1517 Lines: 35 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:56:31 +0300 Ismail Donmez wrote: > 26 Eyl 2006 Sal 19:29 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: > > Andrea Gelmini a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > I've got a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP (dmidecode[1] and lspci[2]). > > > Using default kernel (linux-image-2.6.15-27-686) of Ubuntu > > > Dapper I've got /proc/acpi/sony/brightness and it works well > > > (yes, Ubuntu drivers/char/sonypi.c is patched). > > > With any other newer vanilla kernel, 2.6.15/16/17/18, /proc/acpi/sony > > > doesn't appear, and it's impossibile to set brigthness, of > > > course. Same thing with Ubuntu kernel package > > > (linux-image-2.6.17-9-386). > > > I tried to port Ubuntu sonypi.c patches to 2.6.18, but it doesn't > > > work (I mean, it compiles clean, it "modprobes"[3] clean, but no > > > /proc/acpi/sony/ directory). > > > > /proc/acpi/sony comes from the sony_acpi driver, not sonypi. > > > > You should get the latest sony_acpi driver, preferably from the -mm tree > > which hosts the most up to date version. > > Will sony_acpi ever make it to the mainline? Its very useful for new Vaio > models. > I'm inclined to slip it in, but Len has good-sounding reasons for not merging this sort of driver, and I always forget what they are? - 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/