From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@lists.osdl.org>,
Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:27:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802071727.38743.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080207214715.GA15211@elf.ucw.cz>
On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> See? It even has completely useless help text.
>
> Does WMI stand for Windows Management Instrumentation? It is some
> server management feature? What is it good for?
Thank you for the feedback, Pavel.
There is an additional patch which creates
Documentation/acpi/wmi.txt, but I witheld it from
this batch because it needs to be revised.
If you are not subscribed to the linux-acpi list
you can find it here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=120217838010224&w=2
Clearly we neeed to update the Kconfig doc as well when
we revise and push that patch.
-Len
ps. the answers to your questions are "yes" and "see NOTE" below.
> WMI (EXPERIMENTAL) (ACPI_WMI) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ?
>
> This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI mapper device (PNP0C14)
> found on some systems.
>
> NOTE: You will need another driver or userspace application on top of
> this to actually use anything defined in the ACPI-WMI mapper.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-07 21:47 ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times Pavel Machek
2008-02-07 22:27 ` Len Brown [this message]
2008-02-07 22:34 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-07 23:18 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-07 23:33 ` Ray Lee
2008-02-07 23:51 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-08 0:12 ` Ray Lee
2008-02-08 0:27 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-08 6:53 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-08 9:37 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-08 1:19 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-08 1:38 ` Ray Lee
2008-02-08 2:02 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-08 5:43 ` Len Brown
2008-02-08 5:26 ` Len Brown
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