Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP
From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>,
       Andrea Gelmini <gelma@gelma.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
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Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 ? 00:24 -0500, Len Brown a ?crit :

> > > I'd like to keep this driver out-of-tree
> > > until we prove that we can't enhance the
> > > generic code to handle this hardware
> > > without the addition of a new driver.
> > 
> > How long is this going to take ?
> 
> How about 2.6.21?

Good news !

> What needs to happen is
> 1. a maintainer for sony_acpi.c needs to step forward
>     I can't do this, I'm not allowed to be in the reverse engineering business.

Well, I can't do this either, because I just don't have the required
hardware anymore.

If someone want to step forward now it is a great time !
> 
> 2. /proc/acpi/sony API needs to be deleted
> 
> 3. source needs to move out of drivers/acpi, and into drivers/misc along with msi.

Sensible suggestions, the new maintainer will have to work on this.

Thanks Len.

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Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>

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