linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus

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Message-ID: <461D5070.7080902@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:17:36 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, corentincj@...aif.net,
	sziwan@...rs.sourceforge.net, acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	len.brown@...el.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus_acpi, support F2JE model

Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:37:03 +0200
> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jiri Slaby napsal(a):
>>> Side note, as Danny wrote, there is an asus-laptop driver sitting in -mm,
>>> which supersedes this one -- if you plan to push it upstream in the near
>>> future, don't bother with this patch.
>> Hmm, there is a 0.40 version in -rc6 yet. There is something weird with me
>> today.
>>
> 
> I don't know what you mean by this.

Oh, 0.40 version, which is in 2.6.21-rc6's drivers/misc/ directory would
"contain" the changes, which are in my patch -- so I thought it's useless,
but the driver is still marked as EXPERIMENTAL, so:

> If your patch is still good then I'd be inclined to proceed with it - yes,
> there's a new driver in Len's tree but I assume we'll be maintaining the
> old one until the new one is proven to be a successful replacement.

as you wrote, we might want the patch for the old one to go through if
nobody has objections.

thanks, sorry for the confusion,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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