Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754794AbYH0U3f (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:29:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751801AbYH0U31 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:29:27 -0400 Received: from phoenix.slamd64.com ([217.10.145.2]:36518 "EHLO phoenix.slamd64.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751297AbYH0U30 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:29:26 -0400 From: Carlos Corbacho To: Thomas Renninger Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ACPI BIOS Guideline for Linux Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:29:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Andi Kleen , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" References: <200807241732.23412.trenn@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200807241732.23412.trenn@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808272129.16131.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (phoenix.slamd64.com [217.10.145.2]); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 23 On Thursday 24 July 2008 16:32:22 Thomas Renninger wrote: > \section{WMI - Windows Management Instrumentation} > > WMI is a Microsoft specific service. A small part of it > describes possible ACPI WMI implementations provided by the BIOS. > This is not part of the official ACPI specification and BIOS developers > should avoid using it. The Linux kernel driver supports basic WMI ACPI > functionality (since 2.6.25), but it is marked experimental. > ACPI functionality should not depend on the WMI interface. Perhaps it would be more useful to suggest to vendors/ BIOS writers what they should use here instead? -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D -- 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/