Le jeudi 04 janvier 2007 à 00:24 -0500, Len Brown a écrit :
> > > I'd like to keep this driver out-of-tree
> > > until we prove that we can't enhance the
> > > generic code to handle this hardware
> > > without the addition of a new driver.
> >
> > How long is this going to take ?
>
> How about 2.6.21?
Good news !
> 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 !
>
> 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.
Sensible suggestions, the new maintainer will have to work on this.
Thanks Len.
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Stelian Pop <[email protected]>
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