On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:50:18AM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:40 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:15:34PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> > > ids member of struct acpi_driver is of type struct acpi_device_id, not a
> > > character array.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/char/sonypi.c | 8 +++++++-
> > > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/char/sonypi.c b/drivers/char/sonypi.c
> > > index 73037a4..ac0aeb0 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/char/sonypi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/char/sonypi.c
> > > @@ -1147,10 +1147,16 @@ static int sonypi_acpi_remove(struct acpi_device *device, int type)
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > > +const static struct acpi_device_id sonypi_device_ids[] = {
> > > + {"SNY6001", 0},
> > > + {"", 0},
> > > +};
> > > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, sonypi_device_ids);
> >
> > how does it behave with the already existing id in sony-laptop?
> > I'd rather avoid the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for sonypi allowing sony-laptop
> > to take over automagically.
>
> Yes, sounds reasonable.
> The patch is needed, but MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE should be ripped out.
> AFAIK sonypi and sony-laptop cannot coexist together. But sony-acpi
> should be preferred. If someone needs sonypi, he needs to blacklist
> sony-apci in modprobe.conf and load sonypi manually.
Yes, that's what I meant.
> Shouldn't sony-acpi replace sonypi on longterm or at least addtional
> "SNY6001" functionality be merged to sony-acpi? Having two drivers for
> the same device is not a good idea.
yep, sony-laptop will replace sonypi. It still has some problems but
development is progressing in sony-laptop, not sonypi.
Eugene, I'll import the patch without the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE line.
cheers
--
mattia
:wq!
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