Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:18:30 +0100
Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The place to start (please) is the patches in -mm:
> > 
> > 2.6-sony_acpi4.patch
> > sony_apci-resume.patch
> > sony_apci-resume-fix.patch
> > acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi.patch
> > acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi-v2.patch
> > video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register-sony_acpi-fix.patch
> > 
> > It presently has both the /proc and /sys/.../backlight/.. interfaces, so the first
> > job would be to chop out the /proc stuff.
> 
> Ok, I'll import all of them and start from there.
> Is it ok to wipe all the /proc stuff without notice?

spose so.  I don't know if any apps are dependent upon the /proc file,
but the driver isn't in mainline yet so it's unlikely that there's a
mountain of software depending upon existing interfaces.
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