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From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: khali@linux-fr.org
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Give ACPI hwmon thermal devices a name if BIOS provides one
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:20:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808250020.41626.trenn@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1219615897-21130-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de>

On Monday 25 August 2008 12:11:37 am Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On a HP tx2500z laptop one thermal device provides this function:
>             Name (REGN, "Processor Thermal Zone")

I wonder what we can do to get this added to the ACPI spec or to make
vendors use the same function for this.

What about trying for above "REGN" as it already exists on HPs.
Also try for _NAM (or similar), document that we do this and tell vendors
that it's a good thing to provide a sane string/name for thermal_zones on 
Linux.
On ACPI everything that does not start with "_" means unspecified
and the function should only be used internally and not by the OS...

     Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-24 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-20 20:34 Thermal zone names Jean Delvare
2008-08-21  1:36 ` Zhang Rui
2008-08-21 15:48   ` Jean Delvare
2008-08-24 22:06     ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-24 22:11     ` [RFC PATCH] Read name/location of thermal zone from ACPI function and pass it to hwmon Thomas Renninger
2008-08-24 22:11     ` [PATCH 1/2] patch acpi_introduce_evaluate_string.patch Thomas Renninger
2008-08-25  1:31       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-08-24 22:11     ` [PATCH 2/2] Give ACPI hwmon thermal devices a name if BIOS provides one Thomas Renninger
2008-08-24 22:20       ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2008-08-25  2:15         ` Zhang Rui
2008-08-25 10:48           ` Thomas Renninger
2008-08-25  1:58       ` Zhang Rui
2008-08-25  7:44         ` Jean Delvare

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