[PATCH 0/3] [Jaunty] LP#269831 switch toshiba support from tlsup to toshiba_acpi

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Sun Feb 1 15:25:58 UTC 2009


Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> During the release of Intrepid we moved from using the toshiba_acpi driver
> to using the tlsup driver to support Toshiba laptops.  This was to try and
> leverage the builtin drivers.  This triggered regressions particularly
> in bluetooth support for that release.  For Intrepid we switched back
> to the version used on Hardy.  There is some work going on on tlsup but
> it does not appear to be going to make it for Jaunty.  Therefore this
> patch set brings an updated version the toshiba_acpi driver for Jaunty,
> preventing a re-regression there.
> 
> Our delta from mainline actually consists of two patches.  An update to
> the latest development version of the toshiba_acpi driver and an update
> bringing acpi hotkey support via a kernel thread.  I have updated the
> former to the latest published version and forward ported the latter.
> For this set I have retained these changes as two patches to simplify
> any further rebases.
> 
> For Jaunty.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (3):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: toshiba_acpi -- pull in current -dev version of driver
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: toshiba_acpi -- add acpi hotkey kernel thread
>   UBUNTU: move toshiba laptops back from tlsup to toshiba_acpi
> 
>  debian/abi/2.6.28-6.16/modules.ignore |    1 +
>  debian/config/amd64/config            |    4 +-
>  debian/config/i386/config             |    4 +-
>  drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.c           |  409 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  4 files changed, 397 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 debian/abi/2.6.28-6.16/modules.ignore
> 

ACK

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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