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Date:	Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:50:38 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Platform: add Samsung Laptop platform driver

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:44:19PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:40:06 -0800 Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > 
> > This adds the samsung-laptop driver to the kernel.  It now supports
> > all known Samsung laptops.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-samsung-laptop |   19 
> >  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig                          |   13 
> >  drivers/platform/x86/Makefile                         |    1 
> >  drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c                 |  768 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 801 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Matthew, this is a copy of the latest version in the linux-next tree of the
> > driver.  Once it has been accepted into your tree, I'll delete the
> > staging driver.  Or, if you want to give your ACK, I can just move the
> > driver from staging into this directory in my tree, which will properly
> > preserve the history of the code.
> 
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
> > index d163bc2..da9aed1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
> > @@ -654,4 +654,17 @@ config XO1_RFKILL
> >  	  Support for enabling/disabling the WLAN interface on the OLPC XO-1
> >  	  laptop.
> >  
> > +config SAMSUNG_LAPTOP
> > +	tristate "Samsung Laptop driver"
> > +	depends on RFKILL && BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE && X86
> 
> This entire Kconfig file already depends on X86, so the "&& X86" above
> is redundant.

Ah, yeah, nice catch, that came from when it was stand-alone in the
staging directory.  Can't hurt though :)

Matthew, want me to respin for this change?

thanks,

greg k-h
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