From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: acer-wmi is unnecessarily loaded on a Lenovo Ideapad S12 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 20:49:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20110103204910.GA4223@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4D1B53FB020000230002621B@novprvlin0050.provo.novell.com> <201012301004.29531.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:46433 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752928Ab1ACUtV (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:49:21 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201012301004.29531.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Carlos Corbacho Cc: Joey Lee , vpivaini@cs.helsinki.fi, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org It looks like this GUID is present in a surprisingly wide range of devices (eg, http://pastebin.com/8BY0Dg64 from a Vaio...), which means that it's probably not a safe assumption that reading from the EC will give us reasonable results. Do the Acer drivers definitely do that, rather than there being some SMI that returns the data? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org