Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:51:07PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:15:12 +0100
> Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:
[...]
> > but:
> > - I'll probably need some help;
> > - I'll have an almost-blackout between the end of February and the end
> >   of April as I'm moving to a different country and I'll need some time
> >   before I can be active again (I hope I'll have at least easy mail
> >   access for all the time though).
> > Anyway if it is still ok I can maintain the thing, to months seems
> > enough to give the driver a shape.
> > 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > And turn extra-backlight features into platform_device stuff? So 2 and 3
> > can come together.
> > 
> > Moreover, I own an SZ72B and an older GR7 and have come to the same
> > findings of Cacy, plus a patch to allow a smarter "debug" mode.
> > So, how to proceed? (I've just cloned the linux-acpi-2.6 tree)
> > 
> 
> I have a VGN-something-or-other notebook and I use this driver regularly.

Hehehe, I think all the sony lappies are VGN-something :)

> 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?

-- 
mattia
:wq!