Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751604AbWHSQCX (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:02:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751760AbWHSQCX (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:02:23 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:9926 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751604AbWHSQCX (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:02:23 -0400 Subject: Re: Polling for battery stauts and lost keypresses From: Arjan van de Ven To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Giuseppe Bilotta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200608191150.47183.dtor@insightbb.com> References: <200608191150.47183.dtor@insightbb.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:02:18 +0200 Message-Id: <1156003338.2875.85.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1607 Lines: 37 On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 11:50 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:31, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:17:01 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > 2. Quite often there are OEM drivers that are tweaked to a specific > > > hardware and involve hardware-specific hacks. > > > > If I remember correctly (damn, I can't find a way to do a search on > > the LKML archives ...) there was someone working on Dell stuff, at > > least as far as fans and thermal sensors were concerned (based on the > > code from Massimo Dal Zotto) to integrate them with the kernel sensors > > framework. However, some of those patches where NACKed by someone from > > Dell because they were sort of "guessy" about the addresses to poke > > around to get the information, instead of using the data provided by > > the BIOS on where to look for them ... however, there hasn't been any > > news about that that stuff since ... > > > > As far as I remember that person from Dell was not ready to disclose > details of their SMBIOS :( so it naturally went nowhere. actually Dell did document their smbios ... http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/index.html there was also a posting from Dell with details, but I assume that's included in their libsmbios... > -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com - 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/