Re: [Zaurus-devel] Event based zaurusd

2011-04-15 Thread Stanislav Brabec 
Andrea Adami wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> now that we are running 2.6.38 kernels can we move to the new event
> based zaurusd [1]?
> Any particular drawback?

They are feature incompatible.

RP zaurusd/switchevd:
Screen rotation in X
Audio plug insert/remove
Some ugly hacks to control backlight

Metan zaurusd:
LCD on/off
Backlight control
Suspend/resume control
Save time on power loss

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Stanislav Brabec
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/zaurus


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Re: [Zaurus-devel] Event based zaurusd

2011-04-15 Thread Andrea Adami 
reading  following lines from linux-arm-kernel [2] I wonder if we
could have zaurusd as driver in kernel tree...

"
...
> Since this is a one-off kind of thing, a singleton driver that controls
> power, reset and some GPIO on the chip. I contemplate moving the
> stuff to either:
>
> drivers/misc/ux500/*
> include/linux/misc/ux500/*
>
> or:
>
> drivers/platform/arm/ux500/*
> include/linux/platform/arm/ux500/*
>
> Are any of these generally speaking good ideas?

Or maybe drivers/arm?
...
"

[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-April/048211.html


Andrea

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