From patchwork Thu Dec 3 07:45:17 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Corentin Chary X-Patchwork-Id: 64454 X-Patchwork-Delegate: lenb@kernel.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nB37jJ4E001095 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:45:19 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754945AbZLCHpI (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:45:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754862AbZLCHpI (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:45:08 -0500 Received: from iksaif.net ([88.191.73.63]:44228 "EHLO iksaif.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754740AbZLCHoj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:44:39 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (cxr69-11-88-180-139-205.fbx.proxad.net [88.180.139.205]) (Authenticated sender: corentincj@iksaif.net) by iksaif.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AEEEFC90BEB; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:46:10 +0100 (CET) From: Corentin Chary To: Len Brown Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Corentin Chary Subject: [PATCH 33/33] asus-laptop: schedule display_get and lcd_switch for removal Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:45:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1259826317-18809-34-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.5.3 In-Reply-To: <1259826317-18809-33-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> References: <1259826317-18809-1-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-2-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-3-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-4-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-5-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-6-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-7-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-8-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-9-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-10-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-11-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-12-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-13-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-14-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-15-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-16-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-17-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-18-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-19-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-20-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-21-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-22-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-23-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-24-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-25-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-26-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-27-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-28-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-29-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-30-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-31-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-32-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-33-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index bc693ff..d1c9e17 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -489,3 +489,23 @@ Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies Who: Alok N Kataria ---------------------------- + +What: Support for lcd_switch and display_get in asus-laptop driver +When: March 2010 +Why: These two features use non-standard interfaces. There are the + only features that really need multiple path to guess what's + the right method name on a specific laptop. + + Removing them will allow to remove a lot of code an significantly + clean the drivers. + + This will affect the backlight code which won't be able to know + if the backlight is on or off. The platform display file will also be + write only (like the one in eeepc-laptop). + + This should'nt affect a lot of user because they usually know + when their display is on or off. + +Who: Corentin Chary + +----------------------------