[PATCH 0/2] [Intrepid] LP#222324 -- panasonic laptop support

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:23:44AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > There have been requests to enable the buttons on various Panasonic
> > laptops.  This support comes via the panasonic-laptop module, which was
> > recently updated and accepted into 2.6.28.  This patch set represents a
> > backport of that to the Intrepid kernel.
> > 
> > We should consider this for SRU to Intrepid for hardware enablement.
> > Risk should be low as it is a machine specific driver module.
> > 
> > -apw
> > 
> > Andy Whitcroft (2):
> >   panasonic-laptop: add Panasonic Let's Note laptop extras driver v0.94
> >   UBUNTU: enable the panasonic laptop driver
> > 
> >  MAINTAINERS                     |    5 +
> >  debian/config/amd64/config      |    1 +
> >  debian/config/i386/config       |    1 +
> >  drivers/misc/Kconfig            |   11 +
> >  drivers/misc/Makefile           |    1 +
> >  drivers/misc/panasonic-laptop.c |  767 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  6 files changed, 786 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/panasonic-laptop.c
> > 
> > 
> 
> ACK - but I would like to see the driver retargeted for the ubuntu
> directory since we are carrying the driver outside of the main kernel in
> Intrepid.

Will do.

-apw