Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:56:31 +0300
Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> 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?