From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: handle HKEY thermal and battery alarms Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:51:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20090115195110.GA4200@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1231650070-21722-10-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:57373 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754406AbZAOTvU (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:51:20 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:45:19PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > While useful to a techie, it is hard to imagine that these will > become useful to a generic Linux GUI some day that is used by > regular people. I think it makes sense to tie them to uevents on the appropriate generic devices. Even if most hardware doesn't generate them, the ability to pop up a notification telling the user that the firmware thinks their system is too hot is useful. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org