From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: experimental patch for toshiba_acpi Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:01:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20090226160106.GA27049@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090225152409.GA4015@srcf.ucam.org> <1235578705.4770.57.camel@penguin.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk> <20090225165152.GA5981@srcf.ucam.org> <1235657022.3802.86.camel@hughsie-work.lan> <1235663518.4770.197.camel@penguin.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:48555 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756936AbZBZQBQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:01:16 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1235663518.4770.197.camel@penguin.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Buzzard Cc: Richard Hughes , John Belmonte , Charles@schwieters.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org