Re: old patches in -mm

[Andrew Morton]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > There are 35 patches(not included reiser4 and post-halloween-doc) older
> > than 2 months that still are not in mainline. Forgotten or experimental ?
> >
> >
> > 2.6-sony_acpi4.patch
> >
> Forgotten, I think. This one showed no problems for me until now.
> 

The ACPI guys don't like machine-specific drivers like this, apparently -
features are supposed to be controlled via the machine's BIOS ACPI methods.

But given the state of Sony ACPI documentaion (ie: none) that might not
work out.  I'll ask about it.
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