On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:27:44PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> On Friday 10 August 2007 21:43, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > Make the driver aware of this case and manage the existence of a
> > second separate IO port.
> > Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8803
> 
> Why is this marked as a regression vs 2.6.21?
> Is the problem that sonypi supported this this type of box
> and sony-laptop did not, and that is when the submitter
> started using sony-laptop?
> 
> They can still build and use sonypi in 2.6.22, 3 if they want, yes?

yes but they can't use meye.ko which now (since .22) depends on
sony-laptop loading correctly on their boxes.

> I don't see a huge risk in applying this patch, because it
> seems that it (should) only have an effect on the boxes
> that were not properly supported before.

yep, that's the purpose :)

> But, it is pretty big for a post-rc2 type thing,
> particularly if they can still use sonypi per above.
> Probably appropriate to test it till 2.6.24.

as said the problem is meye, but I agree it's not very appropriate as a
post-rc2.
Oh, and I seem to have some randomic Oops when loading the module (most
probably unrelated to this patch). Let me re-doublecheck it all once
again.

-- 
mattia
:wq!
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