Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-08 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 06:53:13 Pavel Machek wrote: > I believe selct is the way to go here. What do acer-wmi handle? > Additional buttons? Leds? Temperatures? Fan states? Enabling wireless, bluetooth and 3G; and exposing the mail LED and backlight. tc1100-wmi handles wireless and the jog dia

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > > While I'm not trying to set you up for a firing squad, if you can show > > that the only use this driver has is as underlying support for Acer/HP > > xyz drivers, > > Certainly at the moment, this is the only real use it has (and the o

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Len Brown
On Thursday 07 February 2008 21:02, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 01:38:01 Ray Lee wrote: > > That's clear to me (whereas the original wasn't), though I would > > still argue for this driver being select'ed by the drivers that > > require it. As you note, other laptop specifi

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Len Brown
good description, Carlos. applied. thanks, -Len On Thursday 07 February 2008 20:19, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 3:51 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > > > >

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 01:38:01 Ray Lee wrote: > That's clear to me (whereas the original wasn't), though I would > still argue for this driver being select'ed by the drivers that > require it. As you note, other laptop specific drivers do so, and > Linus has come down in favor of that as well

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Ray Lee
On Feb 7, 2008 5:19 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 3:51 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > > > > Do you have list of hardware/platforms th

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008 3:51 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > > > Do you have list of hardware/platforms that require this feature to > > > get the hardware to work? (acer abc123, tc

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > While I'm not trying to set you up for a firing squad, if you can show > that the only use this driver has is as underlying support for Acer/HP > xyz drivers, Certainly at the moment, this is the only real use it has (and the only reason I spe

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Ray Lee
On Feb 7, 2008 3:51 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > > Do you have list of hardware/platforms that require this feature to > > get the hardware to work? (acer abc123, tcm1100 xyz) > > I have a very long list of Acer laptops that

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > Do you have list of hardware/platforms that require this feature to > get the hardware to work? (acer abc123, tcm1100 xyz) I have a very long list of Acer laptops that are supported - which is far too long, and changes on far too much of a re

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Ray Lee
On Feb 7, 2008 3:18 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for the Kconfig - I'm open to suggestions. While the kconfig text is supposed to say 'what' something is, the more valuable piece of information it provides is *why* one would want to enable it. Do you have list of hardware/p

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Thursday 07 February 2008 22:34:55 Pavel Machek wrote: > +3) What is the ACPI-WMI mapper > + > +The Linux ACPI-WMI driver is the implementation of this mapper for Linux. > > Yes, please. This needs translation into plain english. In plain English? ACPI-WMI is a nasty hack/ abuse of ACPI by M

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
On Thu 2008-02-07 17:27:38, Len Brown wrote: > On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:47, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > See? It even has completely useless help text. > > > > Does WMI stand for Windows Management Instrumentation? It is some > > server management feature? What is it good for? > > Thank yo

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Len Brown
On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:47, Pavel Machek wrote: > > See? It even has completely useless help text. > > Does WMI stand for Windows Management Instrumentation? It is some > server management feature? What is it good for? Thank you for the feedback, Pavel. There is an additional patch whic