Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.4.0.9.7: clean up toshiba SMM driver | Date | Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:11:51 +0200 | From | Jonathan Buzzard <> |
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jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com said: > This driver was merged from 2.2.x and needs some more cleanups. Horst > von Brand posted a patch on lkml against this driver, too, but his > cleanups had a bug in it, and weren't as terse with procfs as the > following patch is...
Hum nobody has said anything to me till now. I was holding back with my patch till I had time to test it on more that one laptop. While the patch looks Ok, passed experience has shown it must be verified on more than one model of Toshiba laptop before being marked as safe. Ideally a dozen or so laptop models is best.
Remember any error in this driver could render a Toshiba laptop quite literally unusable. With a trip to a Toshiba authorized reseller, the parting of some cash, and with potential data loss.
> Against 2.4.0-test9-pre7, and tested on my laptop..
Which may not be enough. When I submit my own version of the driver is it permissible to have a sprinkling of #ifdef's so it still compiles on older kernels. I would prefer to only have to maintain one version.
JAB.
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