From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACER: Add support for ambient light sensor Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:55:59 +0200 Message-ID: <201206060055.59421.marex@denx.de> References: <1338570683-16491-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de> <201206041914.00536.marex@denx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:41871 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752136Ab2FEW4D (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 18:56:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Corentin Chary Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, joeyli , "Zhang, Rui" , Len Brown , pavel@denx.de Dear Corentin Chary, [...] > >> This is a generic device, and should be handled by ACPI core > >> (Samsung laptop have this too). See "ACPI ALS" on linux-acpi. > > > > Saying this would be enough. Lee explained to me what this ACPI0008 > > means, I'm quite new to the ACPI land so pardon my ignorance here. But > > it then boils down to Lee's question, why wasn't the patch for ACPI ALS > > that was already proposed accepted? And what can be done to get it in? > > Yep, I've seen Lee's message latter. Regarding ACPI ALS status, it was > forgotten for a long time, and recently Zhang Rui told that he will > take another look at it, but nothing sure. If you want to know more > about the status, you can do a quick search on gmane using "ACPI ALS" > query on linux.acpi Actually, going through the ACPI0008 patch, I see it introduced new sysfs class. Maybe we should rather integrate it with Linux-IIO these days? Best regards, Marek Vasut