Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACER: Add support for ambient light sensor

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

Dear Zhang Rui,

> On 三, 2012-06-06 at 00:55 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> yes.
> please refer to this thread
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=132060809120911&w=2
> 
> I do not have time to do this right now, and it will be great if you are
> interested in introducing the ACPI ALS driver.

So, I finally raised from dead again ... sorry I didn't reply earlier. 
Apparently, one of my students is interested in fixing/writing such driver, 
therefore I'll land him my hardware and let him do it.

I CCed him, please treat him well.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut