Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ACPI] [PATCH] Panasonic ACPI driver | From | Len Brown <> | Date | 15 Feb 2005 10:05:25 -0500 |
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We should not include this driver in the kernel.
Rather than adding additional platform-specific drivers, we should be migrating away from those that we already have to simpler generic drivers for video and hot-keys -- where the platform-dependent (naming) is done in user-space where it is more extensible and supportable.
We've already got video.c, and I believe that we should start to migrate to something like Luming's hot-key driver (see earlier acpi-devel posts) in 2.6.12.
If a platform has some unique feature that no other platform in the world has, then that justifies a platform specific driver for that unique feature. But for the common features, the community will be better served by the simpler generic kernel drivers that work on more systems.
thanks, -Len
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