Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751850AbWHUMeh (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:34:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751136AbWHUMeg (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:34:36 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:31297 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751850AbWHUMef (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:34:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UOWtULhyE0b01MP2PAwO29C9PmycYcpxIRABVtNzzGTTHL7uQ5wJ8L73R3kqAN2SEeHDGiSHFx4cQ/bKeFpT0VoFAYKM8P3uaSYgaFODBk+uUM2IwyHmnq6a4Zs8G8+51JkM7nUAqLjerlgLrRepStVbxNz7V2FLUlUxG8tQM7w= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:34:34 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: Polling for battery stauts and lost keypresses Cc: "Giuseppe Bilotta" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1156003338.2875.85.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200608191150.47183.dtor@insightbb.com> <1156003338.2875.85.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1740 Lines: 40 On 8/19/06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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... > I could not find any fan control or temperature monitoring references there. Maybe I missed them. -- Dmitry - 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/