From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Renninger 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 Message-ID: <200808250020.41626.trenn@suse.de> References: <20080821174852.0689681d@hyperion.delvare> <1219615897-21130-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38462 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750909AbYHXWVS (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:21:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1219615897-21130-3-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: khali@linux-fr.org Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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