Dropping Linux support for the 570 on 2.6.29, please read

[hmh]

Hello people, your friendly Linux kernel maintainer for the ThinkPad drivers, posting here....

Recently, code that exists only for model 570 on the thinkpad-acpi driver started causing problems for all (or nearly all) other ThinkPads.

My policy for model support is that I will take the pains required to keep everything working for a certain ThinkPad model that is causing problems if, and only if, I have enough resources to do so.

By resources, I mean up-to-date data for that model, up-to-date DMI data on thinkwiki.org for that model, and contact information for at least one user that would be willing to test development versions of the driver should I ask for his help.

I don't have such resources for the venerable model 570, so unless someone show up (please email me directly at "ibm-acpi at hmh dot eng dot br") support for the model 570 will be dropped for the Linux kernel 2.6.29 onwards.

Sorry about this.