Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:13:10 +0100
From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
To: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, 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,
       Cacy Rodney <cacy-rodney-cacy@tlen.pl>
Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:02:03AM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote:
> Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 ? 20:15 +0100, Mattia Dongili a ?crit :
> 
> > > > 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 !
> > 
> > I have the hw and I'd be happy to do some basic working on the code
> 
> FYI, sonypi is also searching for a new maintainer, and it is quite
> closely related to sony_acpi...

Yes, probably the FnKeys stuff needs to worked out into a single driver
to ease it usage (I still remember some very old discussion about making
sonypi use the acpi methods to access the hw).

> If you are interested by the job, it is all yours. :)

Let's see if I can come up with something, I have also an ux50 that is
not very happy with current sonypi

Thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!
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