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[Matthias Welwarsky <matze@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 21:39:14 Zuzanna K. Filutowska wrote:
> Dnia środa 25 marzec 2009, Norbert Preining napisał:
> > On Mi, 25 Mär 2009, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> > > Ah yes, thanks; I had overlooked that. The patches work great. There is
> > > only one minor issue: S1 and S2 both produce the same 2 ACPI events
> > > (one
> >
> > Fixed in the latest version I think. There is also one patch (see
> > linux-acpi mailing list) after the one I sent which adds CD Eject
> > support.
>
> Hello all.
>
> I have two questions.
> 1. I am wondering if this code will break the ability to initialize nvidia
> card using windows?

Yes it will. With this module loaded you will not be able to use the nvidia 
card any more.

> If yes, then can we have some option, so we can still use the module and
> not break Windows trip speed mode initialization (problem is when I have
> recently tried to use custom sony-laptop module I couldn't initialize my
> nvidia card with or without windows trip, therefore that module rendered my
> card unusable).

Well, of course. Should be easy to add a new meaning to the speed_stamina 
module parameter...

> 2. Maybe we should think about some SVN/CVS/GIT/whatever server to work
> with the provided code easier, and make changes tracking easier? Searching
> and diffing attachments on mailing list is quite inefficient.

Seems a bit much to me, a repository for just one file ...