Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030424AbWHUMwc (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:52:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030433AbWHUMwb (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:52:31 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:19871 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030424AbWHUMwH (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:52:07 -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: References: <200608191150.47183.dtor@insightbb.com> <1156003338.2875.85.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:52:03 +0200 Message-Id: <1156164723.23756.167.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: 1992 Lines: 42 On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 08:34 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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. there was an lkml posting from a Dell guy with a full table, just that my google skills seem to be not successful at locating it right now. - 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/