linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86 - Move laptop drivers out of x86 Kconfig

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Message-ID: <20080217182008.GZ6006@elte.hu>
Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:20:08 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86 - Move laptop drivers out of x86 Kconfig


* Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk> wrote:

> The following patch series moves the two laptop drivers from x86 
> Kconfig (i8k and toshiba) to drivers/char, which is where the source 
> for them lives anyway.
> 
> Given they are not x86 processor features, the x86 Kconfig menu is not 
> really an appropriate place for them to live.
> 
> This is against Linus latest tree, since x86 git seems to be missing 
> an earlier Kconfig patch for I8K that dropped the x86_32 limitation.

the x86 bits:

  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

i suspect this should be merged by the char driver tree which is 
affected by the addition of these new entries.

	Ingo
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