Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:42758 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752028Ab2CUFBF (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:01:05 -0400 Received: by pbcun15 with SMTP id un15so532852pbc.19 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:01:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4F5E7031.4000401@candelatech.com> <201203122332.16325.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <4F5E7A81.8090605@candelatech.com> <20120313005744.GA30312@srcf.ucam.org> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:01:05 -0700 Message-ID: (sfid-20120321_060111_259150_20BCE62E) Subject: Re: Hacking PCI-ids to allow Atheros NIC into Lenovo laptop. From: Adrian Chadd To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Matthew Garrett , Ben Greear , David Woodhouse , Christian Lamparter , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12 March 2012 18:11, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> Exposing it as either an smbios table or in ACPI somewhere would be the >> two most typical methods for doing this. It's easy to spec an ACPI table >> for it if you think there'd be any vendor interest. > > Better than what we have today, no alternative proposal. Is there any current "vendor space" in ACPI that we can write to and leverage as a kind of example test case? Adrian