On ven, 2009-01-16 at 01:06 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > I think it makes sense to tie them to uevents on the appropriate generic
> > devices. Even if most hardware doesn't generate them, the ability to pop
> > up a notification telling the user that the firmware thinks their sys
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Len Brown wrote:
> > This is a repost of the thinkpad-acpi queue. I sent it to you on
> > 2008-11-22, but apparently it fell through the cracks...
> >
> > The patchset was rebased to apply on top of 2.6.29-rc1.
>
> Hmmm, I remember searching for patches from you Henrique,
>
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:45:19PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> > While useful to a techie, it is hard to imagine that these will
> > become useful to a generic Linux GUI some day that is used by
> > regular people.
>
> I think it makes sense to tie them
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:45:19PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> While useful to a techie, it is hard to imagine that these will
> become useful to a generic Linux GUI some day that is used by
> regular people.
I think it makes sense to tie them to uevents on the appropriate generic
devices. Even if
Interesting. So an ACPI method is writing the radio state
to NVRAM and you pick it back up on boot (or resume).
Very nice -- to bad we don't have this method for all laptops.
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Store in firmw
> Len,
>
> This is a repost of the thinkpad-acpi queue. I sent it to you on
> 2008-11-22, but apparently it fell through the cracks...
>
> The patchset was rebased to apply on top of 2.6.29-rc1.
Hmmm, I remember searching for patches from you Henrique,
but I'm sure went back only as far as Than
While useful to a techie, it is hard to imagine that these will
become useful to a generic Linux GUI some day that is used by
regular people.
As thermals on thinkpads are handled by the EC, the question
will become what does the OS (kernel and user) do with these
other than notify... Presumably t
