Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030239AbXADV3X (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:29:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030245AbXADV3X (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:29:23 -0500 Received: from smtp0.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:55252 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030239AbXADV3V (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:29:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:28:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Mattia Dongili Cc: Stelian Pop , Len Brown , Ismail Donmez , Andrea Gelmini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Cacy Rodney Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Message-Id: <20070104132834.99a585c9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20070104211830.GD25619@inferi.kami.home> References: <49814.213.30.172.234.1159357906.squirrel@webmail.popies.net> <200701040024.29793.lenb@kernel.org> <1167905384.7763.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070104191512.GC25619@inferi.kami.home> <20070104125107.b82db604.akpm@osdl.org> <20070104211830.GD25619@inferi.kami.home> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-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: 1119 Lines: 26 On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:18:30 +0100 Mattia Dongili wrote: > > The place to start (please) is the patches in -mm: > > > > 2.6-sony_acpi4.patch > > sony_apci-resume.patch > > sony_apci-resume-fix.patch > > acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi.patch > > acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi-v2.patch > > video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register-sony_acpi-fix.patch > > > > It presently has both the /proc and /sys/.../backlight/.. interfaces, so the first > > job would be to chop out the /proc stuff. > > Ok, I'll import all of them and start from there. > Is it ok to wipe all the /proc stuff without notice? spose so. I don't know if any apps are dependent upon the /proc file, but the driver isn't in mainline yet so it's unlikely that there's a mountain of software depending upon existing interfaces. - 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/