linux-kernel - Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP

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Date:	Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:50:02 +0300
From:	Ismail Donmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Stelian Pop <stelian@...ies.net>,
	Andrea Gelmini <gelma@...ma.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP

Hi,
27 Eyl 2006 Çar 09:04 tarihinde, Len Brown şunları yazmıştı: 
[...]
> > > Will sony_acpi ever make it to the mainline? Its very useful for new
> > > Vaio models.
>
> Nope, not as it is.  Useful != supportable.
>
> 1. It must not create any files under /proc/acpi
>     This is creating a machine-specific API, which
>     is exactly what we don't want  Nobody can maintain
>     50 machine specific APIs.
>
>     These objects must appear generic and under sysfs
>     as if acpi were not involved in providing them.
>
> 2. its source code shall not live in drivers/acpi
>     it is not part of the ACPI implementation after all --
>     it is a platform specific driver.

Is there a such example code under kernel now, so one could look at it and fix 
sony_acpi driver.

Regards,
ismail

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