Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP

From: Len Brown
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 12:04:44 EST


> > Well, HAL has used it for changing the brightness for the last year or
> > so: /proc/acpi/sony/brightness
> >
> > Although if you use a new enough HAL (CVS), the laptop will be supported
> > via the shiny new backlight class.
>
> great, -mm already has the /sys/class/backlight in place for sony_acpi
> and I suppose the /proc entry can be kept until 2.6.20 is released, i.e.
> just before pushing things for .21.
>
> Len, would you allow it?

Sure, no problem.
Checking it into my tree with /proc/acpi/sony is
no different than what is in -mm today.

When we push upstream, however, the /proc/acpi/sony part should be gone,
or at least scheduled for removal.

I suggest a sub CONFIG option under CONFIG_SONY_ACPI, say,
CONFIG_SONY_ACPI_PROCFS so you can #ifdef the code that
is going away.

thanks for stepping forward Mattia,
-Len

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