On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:53:05AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 00:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I am using only a Debian provided kernel-source package from Sarge. > > I compile own, though. Are you using a kernel-image directly from > > Debian? > > No, I have exactly the same (self-compiled kernel based on Debian > kernel-source with CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA=m). > > But from http://memebeam.org/toys/ExperimentalToshibaAcpiDriver: > > Question: Will this experimental driver ever be rolled into the > mainstream kernel? I've been using toshiba_acpi_0.18-dev_toshiba_test4 > for nearly a year, without any problems. > > The driver is stable, but the issue is that the original toshiba driver > "owns" the /dev/toshiba device, and I'm not sure if it's ok for my > driver to co-opt it. Also, it's not clear to me how distributions will > configure which module gets loaded when a program accesses /dev/toshiba. > > And if I look at the kernel source, I don't see this [1] patch in > toshiba_acpi.c, so I do not have /dev/toshiba and /proc/toshiba that seem > to be needed for toshset; just the /proc/acpi/toshiba from the "official" > toshiba_acpi.c. > > [1]http://memebeam.org/free-software/toshiba_acpi/toshiba_acpi_0.18-dev_toshiba_test4.patch >
I was not aware of this. Thanks for the information. I will need to get this squared away so that I can properly test toshset, as my laptop supports both the APM and (some of) the ACPI interfaces. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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