Re: ibm-acpi-0.1

[Len Brown <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 04:38, Borislav Deianov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:24:39PM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote:
> >
> > IBM hotkey has a unique ID. In T40, it's 'IBM0068'. I guess other
> > IBM laptops also use it. Using a hardcode path in the patch possibly
> > isn't a good idea.
> 
> Agreed. I was originally using acpi_bus_register_driver() and refering
> to devices by HID but that turned out to not work very well for the
> dock (ACPI drops it if it's not present at boot) and embedded
> controller (the ec driver has already grabbed it). So I switched to
> looking things up by the path. I see your point, though, I'll see what
> I can do.

please stick with the HID method if you can.

Docking is a big hole in linux.  Probably there is some docking even
that we need to handle and perhaps re-initialize the driver.

> 
> > BTW, I'm interested in how can you know the meaning of 'DHKC',
> > 'MHKC' and etc. They are non-standard ACPI methods.
> 
> Guesswork from the disassembled DSDT and trial and error...
> 
> Regards,
> Boris
> 
> 
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