Re: experimental patch for toshiba_acpi

[Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:51:58PM +0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:

> Well Toshiba who in part wrote the ACPI specification take *EXACTLY* the
> same route on Windows. There is a device driver that creates a TVALD
> device (the name has changed slightly on newwer models and I cannot
> remember it off hand). To change an HCI setting you open up the TVALD
> and do a ioctl in *exactly* the same manner as you do on /dev/toshiba.
> The similarity is so striking I could almost say Toshiba copied me.

And Dell provided us with a set of userspace drivers to use their smbios 
functionality and still encouraged me to move large chunks of them to a 
kernel driver.

> Now if Toshiba who in part wrote the ACPI specification think this is
> the way to go, and the people who know the most about the HCI in the
> free software world also think this is the way to go, what are your
> qualifications to argue with them, given you have virtually no knowledge
> of the Toshiba HCI and would not appear to even own a Toshiba designed
> and manufactured laptop anyway.

You're really not selling yourself here.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org