Re: RFC [PATCH] acpi: allow SMBus access

Bruno Ducrot
2006-07-03T08:22:21Z

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:12:21PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
>
> To get battery readings on some laptops it is necessary to interface
> with the SMBus that hangs of the EC. However, the current
> implementation of the EC driver does not permit other modules
> read/write access.
>
> A trivial solution is to change acpi_ec_read/write from static to
> nonstatic, and export the symbols so other modules can use them.
>
> This patch is based on the current 2.6.17 kernel sources.

I don't think this patch is correct, or else I would have already
asked this patch being added to mainline.

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