On jeu., 2010-01-21 at 13:29 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> > "SM" == Shannon McMackin 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
> "SM" == Shannon McMackin 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:
1.
So pl
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_releas
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> > "H" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 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 firmware is i
> "H" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 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 to
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 drivers/p
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
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 hi
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> > "H" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 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
On mer., 2010-01-20 at 14:16 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> > "H" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 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
> "H" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 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 curren
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Bug #565789 [linux-2.6] say what the current Thinkpad BIOS/Firmware should be
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Yves-Alexis Perez writes:
> On 18/01/2010 21:28, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
>
>> WARNING: Outdated ThinkPad BIOS/EC firmware
>> WARNING: This firmware may be missing critical bug fixes and/or important
>> features
>>
>> Perhaps it could mention what it believes the current versions should
>> be,
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
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 1W
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