From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Was: Re: UBUNTU - acpi battery on ACER TRAVELMATE 4000 WLMI Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:23:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20060422212333.GA11557@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4446C84B.7020104@rrz.uni-koeln.de> <20060420113231.GA27965@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:62089 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751234AbWDVVXj (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:23:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Johan Vromans Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:53:02PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > Matthew Garrett writes: > > No. There needs to be a kernel driver, regardless of how it provides > > information. > > Isn't that exactly what Rich Townsend's acpi_sbs implements? Yes, and it seems to work fairly well. It should really be submitted for mainline. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org