On Jan 21 2008 19:49, Thomas, Sujith wrote:
>>>
>>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Thomas Sujith");
>>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Zhang Rui");
>>
>> I've never seen a driver with two MODULE_AUTHOR statements before.
>> Does this actually work? What does modinfo -F author say for your module?
>
>There is nothing wrong i
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---
drivers/acpi/battery.c |2 +-
drivers/acpi/ec.c |2 +-
drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c|2 +-
drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c|2 +-
drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c |2 +-
d
On Sep 12 2007 20:49, Patrizio Bassi wrote:
>>> Looks more like a platform irq routing issue than an ata issue.
>>>
>>> Perhaps an x86 or an acpi person can help out with this.
>>
>> Patrizio, have you tried with the old IDE? (And without suspend at that...)
>
>yes yes old IDE works ok
On Sep 11 2007 15:46, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Patrizio Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Jan Engelhardt ha scritto:
>>>On Sep 8 2007 11:38, Patrizio Bassi wrote:
>>>>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I shall give this a spin too, s
On Jul 9 2007 17:45, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> This patch contains the scheduled removal of the ACPI procfs interface.
>
>What part of "we do not gratuitously break user space interfaces" is so
>hard for people to understand.
Generally I am with you on that, but if everyone keeps on using /proc --
and
On May 12 2007 22:12, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>On Saturday 12 May 2007 00:07:18 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more
>> hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned?
>> These are important questions without a goo
On May 14 2007 10:55, Mattia Dongili wrote:
>On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:27:31AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On May 12 2007 20:20, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> >
>> >Ok, the merge window has closed, and 2.6.22-rc1 is out there.
>>
>> I have hit a randc
Cc'ing acpi & sony ppl.
Jan
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On May 11 2007 16:07, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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> A typical Linux distribution has many components that wake the processor up
> frequently for no good reason. In our testing with PowerTOP, we have seen many
> cases where with some simple fixes, the battery life of typical laptops was
> increased b
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so
that the user can disable the whole feature without having to
enter the menu first.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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drivers/battery/Kconfig | 12 ++--
1 file changed, 6
Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at
once instead of going through all options.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
===
--- linux-
On Jan 5 2007 13:13, Mattia Dongili wrote:
>
>> If you are interested by the job, it is all yours. :)
>
>Let's see if I can come up with something, I have also an ux50 that is
>not very happy with current sonypi
Feel free to contact me for testing on U3.
FnKey is done through sonypi here, if I un
On Jan 5 2007 00:36, Stelian Pop wrote:
>@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static struct acpi_driver sony_acpi_driv
>
> static acpi_handle sony_acpi_handle;
> static struct proc_dir_entry *sony_acpi_dir;
>+static struct acpi_device *sony_acpi_acpi_device = NULL;
acpi_acpi?
>@@ -310,7 +315,7 @@ static int sony_
>--- current/drivers/acpi/Kconfig.orig 2006-10-21 10:02:23.0 +0200
>+++ current/drivers/acpi/Kconfig 2006-10-21 10:02:30.0 +0200
>@@ -262,7 +262,6 @@ config ACPI_SONY
> tristate "Sony Laptop Extras"
> depends on X86 && ACPI
> select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
>
>> -(void) kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
>> +kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
>>
>> I believe that the point of the (void) is to prevent lint from
>> squawking, and perhaps some picky ANSI-C compilers. What is the overall
>> Linux policy on this?
>
>IMHO there's another reason to do this which is
>> I find this one interesting, as we've put a number of them into the
>> ACPICA core:
>>
>> -(void) kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
>> +kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
>>
>> I believe that the point of the (void) is to prevent lint from
>> squawking, and perhaps some picky ANSI-C compilers. What
>> > > I'm okay applying this patch it touches the linux-specific
>> > > drivers/acpi/* files only, no ACPICA files.
>> >
>> > Why?
>>
>> Why am I okay with it?
>
>No, I meant why not clean up ACPICA too?
I was about to go through the whole kernel base for anti-casting. Sounds
like a big task,
and probably by someone else.
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Remove unnecessary from/to-void* and to-void casts in drivers/acpi/.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.18/drivers/acpi/ac.c
===
--- linux-2.6.18.orig/drivers/
to be updated then. (Or maybe not if it does not use
/proc)
Jan Engelhardt
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>> Will sony_acpi ever make it to the mainline? Its very useful for new Vaio
>> models.
>
>I'm inclined to slip it in, but Len has good-sounding reasons for not
>merging this sort of driver, and I always forget what they are?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/5/57
n working at the time of shutdown, and machine was able to
>boot immediately afterwards. That means that 128 celsius was sensor
>error.
If it was near 128 C for some time, the plastic case the mainboard is
housed in would have been extremely hot and one would have probably burned
his fin
ced 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...
FWIW, the patch works without having to apply all of -mm.
Jan Engel
>> Is there a better way to do this? ACPI?
>
>Maybe. ACPI folks, any opinion?
>
>-Andi (known to rip out the speaker cables in new machines)
>
Leave the cables, try this for ttyX:
diff --fast -Ndpru linux-2.6.16-rc1-git3-SUSE20060124/drivers/char/vt.c
linux-2.6-AS24/drivers/char/vt.c
--- linux
>> > >> pnp: Device 00:08 does not supported activation.
>> > >> pnp: Device 00:09 does not supported activation.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> ACK, but I guess you need to add an chang
>>
>> pnp: Device 00:08 does not supported activation.
>> pnp: Device 00:09 does not supported activation.
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diff --fast -Ndpru linux-2.6.17-rc1~/drivers/pnp/manager.c
linux-2.6.17-rc1-csc/drivers/pnp/manager.c
--- linux
tell them from userspace.
>
>No, because battery will explode if you do not slow cpu down fast
>enough.
How is that? APC UPS don't explode either if they are switching to battery.
Jan Engelhardt
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>
Well, I am not. At least not-yet-officially. But since I happen to have
that hardware, I use it. (And I even have to postpatch the SUSE KOTD ATM
to get there, heh, heh.)
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Is it worth me converting the other drivers over?
>
>Not sure if I'm ACPI folk but yes, consistent interface would be nice.
>
Note to self: Don't forget to change 2.6-sony-acpi?.diff from -mm to use
this /sys/class/backlight instead of /proc/acpi/sony/brightness when it's
ready
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