On 09/03/2014 04:13 AM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > This package is needed by tlp/tpacpi-bat (see bug #711471, ITP for tlp) to > change battery (dis)charge thresholds on new ThinkPad models which don't > support tp-smapi anymore. > > It may be useful for other purposes, though, but AFAIK, since bbswitch > superseded it for toggling NVIDIA Optimus cards, the main use of this kernel > module by the community is for setting battery thresholds. > > tlp (or, more precisely, tpacpi-bat) - if and when available in Debian - will > need this kernel module for proper operation on new ThinkPad models; currently > it has some kind of automatic installation function for acpi_call kernel > module, but I think a an installation through Debian packages dependency > system > and dkms would be more compliant with Debian standards.
There is effort (by jak@) to get support for that into the kernel[1], would this make acpi-call obsolete again? [1] https://github.com/julian-klode/linux/commits/linux-3.14 Greets Evgeni -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5406a76c.8040...@debian.org
