[PATCH 0/1] UBUNTU: Add hdaps_ec driver to support newer ThinkPads (Hard Drive Active Protection System)

[Amit Kucheria]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:43:39PM -0700, Brad Figg wrote:
> Please pull from :
>     git://kernel.ubuntu.com/bradf/ubuntu-karmic master
> 
> Bug: #297213
> 
> Hardy had two drivers which handled the HardDisk Active
> Protection System (hdaps and hdaps_ec) which is present in IBM
> ThinkPads.  One of the two drivers was dropped when Intrepid
> development began and due to that there are a number of ThinkPads
> (newer models) for which this is not supported.
> 
> This patch brings back in the missing driver.
> 
> The code for this patch was taken from http://tpctl.sourceforge.net
> and is the 0.40 release of December 16, 2008.

Perhaps it would be better to get this upstream to push their code to staging or ping GregKH on to pull it in.

/Amit

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