Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935287AbYBGXeW (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:34:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759018AbYBGXd7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:33:59 -0500 Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.243]:57869 "EHLO hs-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758208AbYBGXd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:33:58 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ny9mEmW3+3TmwvqNZ4uyDpCs3186PnOjcC+BRyzuecJ3uh6YR5S7GYv1Xqrh4vHjXsL9sYJ5XPPoYWn9Ai1ZxGu1NclJFccctyE/UTnPnglBlx5EBmmvMVLTclOYEZZMs7rTYS2UTK9a0VlMIP501OMUXk7Gr5OW1hWs+qkpdJg= Message-ID: <2c0942db0802071533l5c3b98fel90946b73f8a9586b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:33:54 -0800 From: "Ray Lee" To: "Carlos Corbacho" Subject: Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times Cc: "Pavel Machek" , "Len Brown" , "kernel list" , "Linux-pm mailing list" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200802072318.28313.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080207214715.GA15211@elf.ucw.cz> <200802071727.38743.lenb@kernel.org> <20080207223455.GB6096@elf.ucw.cz> <200802072318.28313.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 39a6ac660e6e1f24 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 23 On Feb 7, 2008 3:18 PM, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > As for the Kconfig - I'm open to suggestions. While the kconfig text is supposed to say 'what' something is, the more valuable piece of information it provides is *why* one would want to enable it. Do you have list of hardware/platforms that require this feature to get the hardware to work? (acer abc123, tcm1100 xyz) If so, providing that information to the user/distributions is the right first step. Tell them why they want this feature. Better, if there are kernel drivers that require this (and currently only those drivers), then have those kernel drivers enable ACPI WMI, and otherwise leave it off. If/when the userspace accessible bits go in, it can be exposed to the configurator then. Ray -- 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/