I’ve been rather quiet lately, so time for the latest news:

1) The input part of acer_acpi (the keyboard quirks) has been accepted by Dmitry Torokhov (the input subsystem maintainer) into his tree. This will be going into 2.6.25 - this means that if you have one of the laptops that requires the old acerhk keyboard quirk to make the extra scancodes work, you won’t need acer_acpi just for this fro 2.6.25 onwards. (This code is not acer_acpi specific, so I’ve never been happy with it just sitting in acer_acpi).

2) No news on any other upstream front I’m afraid - wmi & acer-wmi (the upstream port of acer_acpi) are _still_ waiting to be reviewed by the ACPI maintainer (not that I’m getting a little irritated now after three months…)

3) acer_acpi 0.11 will hopefully be released soon - I’ve not had any word of the device autodetection code breaking horribly. Quite the contrary, reports so far indicate that it’s working quite well, so it’s almost time to inflict^^^^^^release it.

4) There appears to be a bug with OpenSuSE 10.3 and the wmi-acer/ wmi module -

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=352648

I’m aware of it - but currently have no clue as to why it doesn’t work on OpenSuSE, yet works on the same hardware with other distributions.

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