Re: 2.4.13-pre3: problems and patches

Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:01:32 +0200


On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:29:18PM +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:

> To build a full pre3 one also needs other patches off the list
> sonypi
> cpqfcTSinit
> These may not be the "proper" patches but they do the job for now.
[...]
> --- linux/drivers/char/sonypi.c.orig Fri Oct 12 20:50:58 2001
> +++ linux/drivers/char/sonypi.c Fri Oct 12 20:51:18 2001
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
>
> #include "sonypi.h"
> #include <linux/sonypi.h>
> +extern int is_sony_vaio_laptop; /* set in DMI table parse routines */
>
> static struct sonypi_device sonypi_device;
> static int minor = -1;

No, the proper patch for this particular problem is:

--- linux-2.4.13-pre3/include/asm-i386/system.h.orig Tue Oct 16 13:59:11 2001
+++ linux-2.4.13-pre3/include/asm-i386/system.h Tue Oct 16 13:59:37 2001
@@ -349,4 +349,6 @@
void disable_hlt(void);
void enable_hlt(void);

+extern int is_sony_vaio_laptop;
+
#endif

Linus, please apply.

Stelian.

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