Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751191AbWEQDWq (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 23:22:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751199AbWEQDWq (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 23:22:46 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:43155 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191AbWEQDWp (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 23:22:45 -0400 Message-ID: <446A9AD0.6030509@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:38:56 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: marekw1977@yahoo.com.au, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: acpi4asus References: <20060511130743.GG15876@mail.muni.cz> <20060511073211.1da40329.akpm@osdl.org> <200605121116.11930.marekw1977@yahoo.com.au> <44649A2E.4070803@tmr.com> <20060508234723.GB4349@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060508234723.GB4349@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1585 Lines: 49 Pavel Machek wrote: >Hi! > > > >>>I am far from qualified to comment on this, but from a >>>users point of view, is it possible to not have laptop >>>specific code in the kernel? >>>I have had two Linux laptops and with both I had ACPI >>>issues. >>>The vendors of both laptops (Toshiba Tecra S1 and now >>>an Asus W3V) don't seem to be following standards. With >>>both I seem to need to patch ACPI to get various >>>functions of the laptop to work. >>>I would love to see laptop specific functionality >>>definitions exist outside the kernel. >>> >>> >>> >>I don't think that forcing laptop users to have their >>own code outside the kernel is really the best approach >>for either the developers or the users. Most users will >> >> > >No, we don't want that. But we do not want ibm-acpi, toshiba-acpi, >asus-acpi, etc, when they really only differ in string constants used. > >We want userland to tell kernel 'mail led is controlled by AML routine >foo', instead of having gazillion *-acpi modules. > > > > I see no reason why an interface to that couldn't be included in the kernel, with just a small table for each hardware instead of a whole module. Kind of a white list with detail. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/