From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Polling for battery stauts and lost keypresses
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:50:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608191150.47183.dtor@insightbb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gd60xm38im9j.a4xxz8tjb0qj$.dlg@40tude.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-19 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-14 13:58 Touchpad problems with latest kernels Luke Sharkey
2006-08-14 14:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-14 15:18 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-14 14:38 ` Gene Heskett
2006-08-14 15:06 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-14 15:19 ` Gene Heskett
2006-08-14 15:41 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-14 15:13 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-14 15:25 ` Mattia Dongili
2006-08-14 15:34 ` Gene Heskett
2006-08-14 15:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-14 16:33 ` Gene Heskett
2006-08-14 16:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-14 15:20 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-08-14 15:41 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-14 15:54 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-08-14 16:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-14 20:06 ` Polling for battery stauts and lost keypresses (was: Touchpad problems with latest kernels) Giuseppe Bilotta
2006-08-14 20:17 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-16 7:31 ` Polling for battery stauts and lost keypresses Giuseppe Bilotta
2006-08-19 15:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-08-19 16:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-21 11:56 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2006-08-21 12:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-21 12:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-24 20:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-14 19:30 ` Touchpad problems with latest kernels Dmitry Torokhov
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