Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 06:53:13 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
       kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@lists.osdl.org>,
       linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times
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Hi!

> On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote:
> > While I'm not trying to set you up for a firing squad, if you can show
> > that the only use this driver has is as underlying support for Acer/HP
> > xyz drivers, 
> 
> Certainly at the moment, this is the only real use it has (and the only reason 
> I spent any time working on a generic ACPI-WMI driver - probably one of the 
> reasons Kconfig is somewhat neglected - ACPI-WMI is a means to an end for me 
> (getting my laptop properly supported by another driver on top of it), not 
> the end itself).
> 
> Although, given most of the other laptop drivers in drivers/misc use 'select' 
> for various things, I don't see the harm here - unless anyone else has a 
> great objection to acer-wmi and tc1100-wmi having 'select ACPI_WMI'?

I believe selct is the way to go here. What do acer-wmi handle?
Additional buttons? Leds? Temperatures? Fan states?

The laptops will boot fine without it, right?

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