Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this update includes the brightness fixes. I didn't find if he completed the second half of the patches, but looks like perhaps not.
I think the next logical step would be to contact Marco Chiappero to see if he still has plans for this work.
The attached patch was a roll-up patch of patches that are broken out here:
http://<email address hidden> /msg01965. html www.absence. it/vaio- acpi/source/ patches/ patchset/
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The author started updating this set of patches, the first chunk of which are here:
http://<email address hidden> /msg02399. html www.absence. it/vaio- acpi/source/ patches/ patchset- v2/
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Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this update includes the brightness fixes. I didn't find if he completed the second half of the patches, but looks like perhaps not.
I think the next logical step would be to contact Marco Chiappero to see if he still has plans for this work.