XO-1.5 ebook switch driver - upstream submission

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Sun Dec 5 11:03:32 EST 2010


On 5 December 2010 14:26, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> like chris, i don't think this is a great name.  we already use at
> least two naming styles (olpc_dcon_xo_1_5.c, olpc-pm-1.5.c) and
> introducing a third doesn't seem great.  frankly, i think "xo15",
> "xo175", etc, would be sufficient, since the lack of a decimal is
> unlikely to lead to ambiguity, but barring that, i'd stick with using '_'.
> (of course, if dcon hasn't gone upstream yet (i don't recall), then
> now would be the time to change it too, if we want to change.)

This is the first version-relevant XO-1.5 thing to go upstream so we
can choose the naming for this and all subsequent items.
I like "xo15" too. Chris?

> whether or not we eventually decide to apply your DSDT patch, i think
> we'll probably want to leave the in-kernel bit twiddling in place for
> at least until the new firmware is available.  and i guess i'm
> assuming that we wouldn't do new firmware just for this, but would
> wait until some more compelling reason came along.

Yep. I'd take care of this, and the powerd update. As mentioned
earlier, this isn't something that we'd ship in the immediate future.

Daniel



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