From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
To: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:51:31 +0000
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On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote:
> Do you have list of hardware/platforms that require this feature to
> get the hardware to work? (acer abc123, tcm1100 xyz)

I have a very long list of Acer laptops that are supported - which is far too 
long, and changes on far too much of a regular basis to put in there.

Perhaps adding something like "This driver is also a required dependency to 
build the firmware specific drivers needed for many laptops, including Acer 
and HP machines"?

(There's currently another ACPI-WMI based driver in development related to 
more HP laptops, and acer-wmi also supports a handful of non-Acer laptops).

I don't think explaining what WMI is, and how ACPI-WMI is related to it is 
that useful in Kconfig here; so I agree that further elaborating on the 'why' 
this should be enabled is definitely worth doing.

> Better, if there are kernel drivers that require this (and currently
> only those drivers), then have those kernel drivers enable ACPI WMI,

Wouldn't that require 'select' though, and I'm led to believe that's seriously 
frowned upon these days?

-Carlos
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