RE: [ACPI] [PATCH] Panasonic ACPI driver

2005-03-15 Thread Timo Hoenig
Hi, On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:03 +0800, Yu, Luming wrote: >Basically, this driver just call some specific AML method for hotkey function, >that can be >achieved through generic hotkey driver filed at >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3887. >So I don't think this driver is needed. OK.

Re: [ACPI] [PATCH] Panasonic ACPI driver

2005-02-15 Thread Len Brown
We should not include this driver in the kernel. Rather than adding additional platform-specific drivers, we should be migrating away from those that we already have to simpler generic drivers for video and hot-keys -- where the platform-dependent (naming) is done in user-space where it is more ex

[PATCH] Panasonic ACPI driver

2005-02-10 Thread Timo Hoenig
Hi, this is another ACPI driver for several Panasonic notebooks. The driver provides support for hotkeys and enables access to other hardware like reading/setting the LCD brightness. Like the Sony ACPI driver--recently sent by Stelian Pop--it would be good to to see this one to be integrated into