Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755822AbYH3Mrb (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:47:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751881AbYH3MrV (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:47:21 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:44553 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751364AbYH3MrV (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:47:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:47:13 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Thomas Renninger Cc: Carlos Corbacho , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ACPI BIOS Guideline for Linux Message-ID: <20080830124713.GA5910@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200807241732.23412.trenn@suse.de> <200808281416.57193.trenn@suse.de> <20080828122227.GA26285@srcf.ucam.org> <200808291729.53628.trenn@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808291729.53628.trenn@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 959 Lines: 20 On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 05:29:52PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2008 14:22:29 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Little. But what advantage do we get in the same functionality being > > implemented in an entirely custom way? Even less. > It is all about documentation, right. > WMI is complicating things by one needless and complicated layer. Not really. It provides approximately no complexity for Linux drivers, and makes it easier for vendors to provide Windows support. WMI has not been the hard bit of the drivers I've written. I don't see any reason to ask vendors not to use it, as long as they're willing to document their implementation. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- 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/