Sony ACPI extras mainline inclusion
Dear kernel developers,
I own a Sony VAIO laptop that uses ACPI for setting screen brightness through the "2.6-sony_acpi4.patch" patch that has been living in -mm for a while. I'd like this patch to be merged in mainline, so that I won't be forced anymore to patch the kernel by hand or to use the -mm patchset.
Is there something that prevents this to happen?
Hi!
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I own a Sony VAIO laptop that uses ACPI for setting screen brightness
through the "2.6-sony_acpi4.patch" patch that has been living in -mm for a while.
I'd like this patch to be merged in mainline, so that I won't be forced anymore to patch
the kernel by hand or to use the -mm patchset. Is there something that prevents this to happen?
Wrong interface?
Convert it to use /sys/class/backlight sysfs interface...
Pavel
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I own a Sony VAIO laptop that uses ACPI for setting screen brightness
through the "2.6-sony_acpi4.patch" patch that has been living in -mm for a while.
I'd like this patch to be merged in mainline, so that I won't be forced anymore to patch
the kernel by hand or to use the -mm patchset. Is there something that prevents this to happen?
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Wrong interface?
Convert it to use
/sys/class/backlightsysfs interface...
FWIW, the patch works without having to apply all of -mm.
Jan Engelhardt
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Hi!
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I own a Sony VAIO laptop that uses ACPI for setting screen brightness through the "2.6-sony_acpi4.patch" patch that has been living in -mm for a while. I'd like this patch to be merged in mainline, so that I won't be forced anymore to patch the kernel by hand or to use the -mm patchset.
Is there something that prevents this to happen?
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Wrong interface?
Convert it to use
/sys/class/backlightsysfs interface...Pavel
Thank you for repling!
I found a patch that does it in the mailing list archives, although I've not tested if it can be still applied correctly:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=113950408508944&w=2
Hi!
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I own a Sony VAIO laptop that uses ACPI for setting screen brightness
through the "2.6-sony_acpi4.patch" patch that has been living in -mm for a while.
I'd like this patch to be merged in mainline, so that I won't be forced anymore to patch
the kernel by hand or to use the -mm patchset. Is there something that prevents this to happen?Wrong interface?
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Convert it to use
/sys/class/backlightsysfs interface...Thank you for repling!
I found a patch that does it in the mailing list archives, although I've not tested if it can be still applied correctly:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=113950408508944&w=2
Yep, that looks like a good starting point. Plus "old" backlight interface should be removed so that we don't have to support two of them for 2+ years.
Pavel
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