From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: jamey.hicks@hp.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WMI vs Linux
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:17:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070328221726.GA14968@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703281544.41842.lenb@kernel.org>
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:44:41PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> I was wondering if you could tell me about it.
> I was just about to write a little driver that binds to PNP0C14 and tells the
> user that they should not buy machines with WMI extensions and run Linux on them --
> but maybe an exception to that rule already exists?
It would be helpful to export as much WMI information as possible - we
can supply information to utilise it via HAL, which would at least
provide support for doing things like poking the wireless and bluetooth
hardware on the old HP tablets.
I agree that WMI functionality is generally a bad sign, but where we can
drive it I think we probably should be.
> ps. while you're at it, what is the WACF005 Wacom Digitizer device also in the patch --
> I don't see that upstream either.
It's handled by 8250_pnp.c now.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-28 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-28 19:44 WMI vs Linux Len Brown
2007-03-28 22:17 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-03-29 2:58 ` Joshua Wise
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2007-03-29 2:49 ` Len Brown
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