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Message-Id: <200608191150.47183.dtor@insightbb.com> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:50:46 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com> To: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...pop.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Polling for battery stauts and lost keypresses On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:31, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:17:01 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > 2. Quite often there are OEM drivers that are tweaked to a specific > > hardware and involve hardware-specific hacks. > > If I remember correctly (damn, I can't find a way to do a search on > the LKML archives ...) there was someone working on Dell stuff, at > least as far as fans and thermal sensors were concerned (based on the > code from Massimo Dal Zotto) to integrate them with the kernel sensors > framework. However, some of those patches where NACKed by someone from > Dell because they were sort of "guessy" about the addresses to poke > around to get the information, instead of using the data provided by > the BIOS on where to look for them ... however, there hasn't been any > news about that that stuff since ... > As far as I remember that person from Dell was not ready to disclose details of their SMBIOS :( so it naturally went nowhere. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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