Bug#565789: [ltp] Re: Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: H == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: H The version the driver thinks you should use is the latest that was H available when I wasted a few hours tracking them all. Yes, but in addition to giving the message Your version

Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread jidanni
What if instead of # apt-cache policy somepackage Installed: 2.10.2-2 Candidate: 2.11~0exp1-0exp1 it just said # apt-cache policy somepackage Installed: 2.10.2-2 Candidate: UPGRADE NOW Indeed, why tease the user with any version numbers in the first place, if there is no way provided for

Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Indeed, why tease the user with any version numbers in the first place, I don't. if there is no way provided for him to pry the other half out of your binary. If you care so much, go read the source code, which incidently is the ONLY thing I

Bug#565789: [ltp] Re: Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Candidate out of your binary. So I needn't download the whole kernel source tar just to extract that one number each time I want to know what Go to http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree and navigate to

Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread jidanni
H == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: H On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Indeed, why tease the user with any version numbers in the first place, H I don't. The warning to upgrade comes with the users current version number. if there is no way provided for him

Bug#565789: [ltp] Re: Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: H == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: The warning to upgrade comes with the users current version number. The driver always logs the current version number at INFO priority at startup, because otherwise I don't know what

Bug#565789: [ltp] Re: Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread jidanni
OK, I found the file. One needs to scrape it out of a browser, as there is no way to wget it. All I know is you do printk(TPACPI_INFO %s v%s\n, TPACPI_DESC, TPACPI_VERSION); printk(TPACPI_INFO %s\n, TPACPI_URL); and then later if ((bios_version thinkpad_id.bios_release)

Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread jidanni
SM == Shannon McMackin smcmac...@gmail.com writes: SM I think it's wonderful that the current version at least knows what SM the current BIOS rev is, that in itself is a huge amount of work to SM add in considering the variety of ThinkPad models. Exactly. Here's my several versions of a reply:

Bug#565789: [ltp] Re: Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2010-01-21 at 13:29 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: SM == Shannon McMackin smcmac...@gmail.com writes: SM I think it's wonderful that the current version at least knows what SM the current BIOS rev is, that in itself is a huge amount of work to SM add in considering the variety

Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-19 Thread jidanni
H == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: H The version the driver thinks you should use is the latest that was H available when I wasted a few hours tracking them all. Yes, but in addition to giving the message Your version 1234 is out of date. You need to say we believe the

Bug#565789: [ltp] Re: Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2010-01-20 at 14:16 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: H == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: H The version the driver thinks you should use is the latest that was H available when I wasted a few hours tracking them all. Yes, but in addition to giving the message

Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-18 Thread jidanni
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-5 Severity: wishlist File: /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko X-debbugs-Cc: ibm-acpi-de...@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-think...@linux-thinkpad.org We see ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.23 http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ ThinkPad BIOS

Bug#565789: [ltp] Bug#565789: say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be

2010-01-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 18/01/2010 21:28, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-5 Severity: wishlist File: /lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko X-debbugs-Cc: ibm-acpi-de...@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-think...@linux-thinkpad.org We see