On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:52:19PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Ben E. Hard wrote: > > > can you enable the CONFIG_SONYPI_COMPAT Option in the default debian > > kernel? > > At least my Sony Vaio PCG-R600HFPD still needs that compatibility mode in > > connection with KDE to work correctly. I build my own kernel with that > > option > > and now it works. > > please define "work correctly"
To make the story short, sony-laptop will replace sonypi and all the (not so) active development is being done solely on sony-laptop. Thus sony-laptop supports more models, the meye module also switched to sony-laptop. > what is missing currently? sony-laptop uses sysfs while sonypi creates a char device. To make old users of the char device still work there is this CONFIG_SONYPI_COMPAT option that makes sony-laptop also create the char dev and accept the ioctls that sonypi accepts. Enabling CONFIG_SONYPI_COMPAT would make the dismissal of sonypi easier and the transition smoother. Last but not least, since sony-laptop is ACPI based, it is automatically loaded in recent kernels where a SNY5001 or a SNY6001 device is found in the DSDT, and it will grab the ioports that also sonypi uses thus making the 2 not cohexist happily. If CONFIG_SONYPI_COMPAT is set the user won't notice the difference. cheers -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
