From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Florian Echtler <floe@butterbrot.org>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Looking for some pointers on WMI/EC access
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:32:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100421143239.GA484@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271860206.1537.1914.camel@pancake>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 04:30:06PM +0200, Florian Echtler wrote:
> Thanks - now let me try to sum this up in order to get it straight (I've been
> reading the ACPI spec and had to fight sleep really hard :-).
>
> 1. EC detects an event (hotkey), raises an SCI.
>
> 2. Linux ec.c driver services the SCI, queries the EC for event code.
Yup. The ec driver is a special case of a GPE going directly to a driver
rather than being handled by the ACPI core.
> 3. If available, ec.c calls ACPI _Qxx method for received event code.
>
> 4. _Qxx method changes some internal state and MAY again call
> Notify(...) to pass the event to some other ACPI device.
>
> 5. If Notify() was called, second-level ACPI driver (e.g. battery.c,
> thermal.c, ...) gets event and handles it accordingly.
That's all correct.
> If that's correct so far, couldn't I just print the EC event code in
> acpi_ec_sync_query and see what it's spitting out on hotkey press?
Yes, that should work.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-17 15:37 Looking for some pointers on WMI/EC access Florian Echtler
2010-04-18 19:21 ` Corentin Chary
2010-04-19 14:25 ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-19 15:46 ` Corentin Chary
[not found] ` <1271746353.16585.9.camel@flunder>
2010-04-20 7:21 ` Corentin Chary
2010-04-20 7:30 ` Corentin Chary
2010-04-20 11:21 ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-20 12:09 ` Corentin Chary
2010-04-21 12:46 ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-21 13:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-21 14:30 ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-21 14:32 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-22 8:21 ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-22 13:36 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <1271944219.29664.42.camel@pancake.fritz.box>
2010-04-22 13:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-22 14:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-23 11:24 ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-23 17:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-22 14:33 ` Corentin Chary
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