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[Eric Webb <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI. I wasn't able to build the latest sony-laptop tarball on my fedora 
10 box. The output (and uname) is included below. 0.3 compiled correctly 
for me, and I am moving forward with it.

Thanks for your work on this!

cheers,
eric


[ewebb@vaio sony-laptop-zseries-0.5]$ ls
Makefile README sony-laptop.c
[ewebb@vaio sony-laptop-zseries-0.5]$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64/build 
SUBDIRS=/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64'
CC [M] /home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.o
/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.c: In function 
‘sony_ovga_dsm’:
/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.c:504: warning: 
assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.c:512: warning: 
passing argument 2 of ‘acpi_evaluate_object’ discards qualifiers from 
pointer target type
/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.c:524: warning: 
format ‘%08x’ expects type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type 
‘acpi_integer’
/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.c:527: warning: 
format ‘%08X’ expects type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type 
‘acpi_integer’
/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.c: In function 
‘sony_nc_add’:
/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.c:1242: error: 
implicit declaration of function ‘acpi_video_backlight_support’
make[2]: *** 
[/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5/sony-laptop.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/ewebb/Download/sony-laptop-zseries-0.5] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64'
make: *** [default] Error 2
[ewebb@vaio sony-laptop-zseries-0.5]$ uname -a
Linux vaio.localdomain 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 
01:33:24 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux