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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACER: Add support for ambient light sensor
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:20:15 +0200
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To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, joeyli <jlee@suse.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, pavel@denx.de, Martin =?utf-8?q?Li=C5=A1ka?= <marxin.liska@gmail.com>

Dear Zhang Rui,

> On =E4=B8=89, 2012-06-06 at 00:55 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Corentin Chary,
> >=20
> > [...]
> >=20
> > > >> This is a generic device, and should be handled by ACPI core
> > > >> (Samsung laptop have this too). See "ACPI ALS" on linux-acpi.
> > > >=20
> > > > Saying this would be enough. Lee explained to me what this ACPI=
0008
> > > > means, I'm quite new to the ACPI land so pardon my ignorance he=
re.
> > > > 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 do=
ne to
> > > > get it in?
> > >=20
> > > Yep, I've seen Lee's message latter. Regarding ACPI ALS status, i=
t was
> > > forgotten for a long time, and recently Zhang Rui told that he wi=
ll
> > > take another look at it, but nothing sure. If you want to know mo=
re
> > > about the status, you can do a quick search on gmane using "ACPI =
ALS"
> > > query on linux.acpi
> >=20
> > Actually, going through the ACPI0008 patch, I see it introduced new=
 sysfs
> > class. Maybe we should rather integrate it with Linux-IIO these day=
s?
>=20
> yes.
> please refer to this thread
> http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-acpi&m=3D132060809120911&w=3D2
>=20
> 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.=20
Apparently, one of my students is interested in fixing/writing such dri=
ver,=20
therefore I'll land him my hardware and let him do it.

I CCed him, please treat him well.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut