Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)

2007-02-11 Thread Stelian Pop
Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 10:20 +0100, Mattia Dongili a écrit : > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:59:43PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > > Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 11:58 -0500, Len Brown a écrit : > [...] > > > Stelian, > > > I think if you can list what you know actually works on what models, > >

Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)

2007-02-11 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:59:43PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 11:58 -0500, Len Brown a écrit : [...] > > Stelian, > > I think if you can list what you know actually works on what models, > > and what may not work, and what you think about the code needs to > > be chan

Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)

2007-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 20:25 +0100, Mattia Dongili a écrit : > > Presumably there is some application that talks to those ioctls. > > Yep, sonypid spicctrl sjog sonykeyd just to name a few. Don't forget also kde and hal... [...] > Fortunately I own a type2 and a couple of type3 laptops

Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)

2007-02-10 Thread Stelian Pop
Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 11:58 -0500, Len Brown a écrit : > sonypi is an interesting beast, and I do mean beast. > It pre-dates Linux ACPI support by several years > and is chock-full of reverse engineered magic numbers. Yep. It was Andrew Trigdell (with friends) who reverse engineered some

Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)

2007-02-09 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:25:13PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:58:18AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: [...] > > > One question though: which subsystem should sonypi patches flow through? > > > > In the interest of making ACPI use in the platform specific drivers > > sane and

Re: sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)

2007-02-09 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:58:18AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > On Friday 09 February 2007 09:01, Mattia Dongili wrote: [...] > > sonypi is an interesting beast, and I do mean beast. > It pre-dates Linux ACPI support by several years > and is chock-full of reverse engineered magic numbers. > > It is

sony-laptop vs sonypi (Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer)

2007-02-09 Thread Len Brown
On Friday 09 February 2007 09:01, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Fri, February 9, 2007 2:34 pm, Stelian Pop said: > > Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 01:44 -0500, Len Brown a écrit : > >> On Thursday 08 February 2007 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > From: Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >