Prepare to work with 2.6.28 (andy-tracking) kernel

[PaulFertser]

As this kernel will soon be declared a new official "stable", we should prepare to work with it. I've installed c59a8bdc7ca4b547 and tested how FSO works with it.

It seems to be quite stable (except don't try to press the power button unless you are sure it's fully suspended; fixed in new versions). I've tested LEDs, power supplies, brightness control, suspend/resume, GPRS, GPS, bluetooth ("hcitool dev" works as expected) and WiFi (when there're APs nearby, iwlist scan shows them, else a cryptic message is output). Everything seem to be working ok.

Two things i noticed so far: after suspend/resume bluetooth no longer works. WiFi can't be disabled even right after reboot.

Attached is a minimal patch against stabilization/milestone4 that modifies the hardcoded /sys paths to correspond with those of the new kernel. It should also apply cleanly (except the "apm -s" part that was already changed to use the new semantics) to the HEAD.

[mickey]

Catched up with the new sysfs paths in a slightly better way, luckily all device nodes are linked from /sys/bus/platform/devices, so we can support both kernel tracks at the same time.

The only thing missing is the dbus name of the backlight node, I want to solve this otherways (introducing a wildcard or so).

[mickey]

I did settle for another way to deal with the different backlight node name (additional numerical incremental alias). FSO should now fully support both kernel tracks.

[odlg]

Using fso-testing and andy-tracking, it seems that the GPS is never powered on.

[jluebbe]

Which git-revision of the framework are you using? This was no problem in our tests.

[odlg]

I am using 0.8.4.5+gitr97bd68d4a2f3681dfb35647a62ca12dd8b287f8e-r0 from fso-testing

[jluebbe]

This is the latest revision from the stabilization/milestone4 branch, which doesn't contain our new work.

[odlg]

OK, I just upgraded from fso-testing to fso-unstable, hoping that would give the latest. It seems it did not. I am somewhat confused regarding where to get the latest, is there a daily updated feed with frameworkd and zhone?

[stefan]

You can find unstable images here: http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-unstable/

It's not daily but often.

I close this bug as it should really be fixed in a newer version