From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?iso-8859-2?q?Zdzis=B3aw_A=2E?= Kaleta" Subject: Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:17:28 +0100 Message-ID: <200501211517.28563.sanskryt@op.pl> References: <41E81C2C.8010809@bartol.udel.edu> <41F10180.60008@arrakis.dhis.org> <41F1031E.60507@bartol.udel.edu> Reply-To: sanskryt-FWhLrETftxM@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41F1031E.60507-OBnUx95tOyn10jlvfTC4gA@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Dnia pi=B1tek 21 stycznia 2005 14:26, Rich Townsend napisa=B3: > Pedro Venda wrote: > > Johan Vromans wrote: > > | Rich Townsend writes: > > |>I do this because everything in /lib/modules/XXX/kernel/* gets > > |>clobbered when you do a make modules_install from the kernel source > > |>tree; > > | > > | I see. > > | > > |>I have recently realized that the whole SBS functionality can be > > |>implemented in terms of control methods in the DSDT, without the > > |>need for any kernel drivers. > > | > > | Nice. This would require a kernel recompile/reboot for each DSDT > > | modification... > > > > not nice, I guess. 99.9% of the interested (me included) wouldn't be > > able to > > patch their DSDT and with generated ASL (is it ASL or AML or... ACPI > > language) > > code for their specific case. > > What if you just had to run a perl script, and then add an "initrd=3D" > line to your kernel boot parameters? Because the code would be *so* much > cleaner if a lot of the tasks were moved to the DSDT; in particular, we > could get rid of i2c_acpi_sbs, and thus remove the dependency of ACPI on > I2C. > > cheers, > > Rich What about people who didn't use initrd in their kernel? =2D-=20 z.a.kaleta (sanskryt), registered Linux User #279350 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl