wmi.c - Any news?
Len,
Is your current work on wmi.c going to be released soon (in whatever state it might be), or would it be better for me to just write my own implementation from scratch?
(I would still like to get some form of acer_acpi included upstream if possible, so am dependant on wmi.c being produced first).
-Carlos
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Len Brown
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Len,
Is your current work on
wmi.cgoing to be released soon (in whatever state it might be), or would it be better for me to just write my own implementation from scratch?(I would still like to get some form of
acer_acpiincluded upstream if possible, so am dependant onwmi.cbeing produced first).
Hi Carlos,
I plan to get back to this when i return from the kernel summit.
Do you have other acer-specific functions which are not related to WMI?
cheers,
-Len
Quoted 1 line · On Friday 31 August 2007 19:23:50 Len Brown wrote:
Do you have other acer-specific functions which are not related to WMI?
We currently poke about a bit at registers on the EC to read (and sometimes write) a few values which are not available through WMI (but only on a handful of laptops, where someone has actually gathered the data on and passed back to me).
On older laptops, this is so we can control the brightness and read 'real' values for the state of the wireless, bluetooth and Mail LED. On newer laptops, this is the only way to control the Mail LED at all (but this is all as a compliment to the functionality exposed through WMI - I have no intention of producing a generic 'acer-laptop' driver to control all the non-WMI laptops as well).
-Carlos
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Len,
Quoted 1 line · On Friday 31 August 2007 19:23:50 Len Brown wrote:
I plan to get back to [
wmi.c] when i return from the kernel summit.
Are you planning to get back to this still in the next few weeks?
-Carlos
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