Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP
From: Timo Hoenig <thoenig@nouse.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:36:24 +0100
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Hi,

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 13:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 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.

Not a mountain, but still a few applications support that interface.

At least the powersave daemon 'powersaved' and HAL support the
brightness interface of the Sony driver.

The responsible developers are following the linux-acpi list.

   Timo

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