Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 03:42:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 03:42:01 -0500 Received: from p15.dynadsl.ifb.co.uk ([194.105.168.15]:23488 "HELO smeg") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 03:41:46 -0500 From: "Lee Packham" To: Subject: Support of sonypi module/code Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:40:30 -0000 Message-ID: <000001c17fc3$fe666c00$0102a8c0@lee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am I going to be treading on anybody's toes if I release a patch for the sonypi module to add battery and AC power information support? The reason is thus, to stop the fan spinning all the time on my laptop I have to use ACPI (I have a Vaio FX-103). It doesn't work great, but it works... ACPI can't report battery info. Nor can APM! You have to use the Programmable Interrupts thing to get them out of the system. I wrote a program that did this (vaiod) on a polling interval to set my screen brightness automagically but I would have to poll things manually. It would be great to do this though /dev/sonypi. It doesn't look like the code has been updated for ages. So is anybody going to complain if I do it? Lee Packham - 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/