From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] X86 platform drivers: Remove EC dump from thinkpad_acpi Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:26:03 -0300 Message-ID: <20100701232603.GA15824@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <1277996570-2686-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <1277996570-2686-6-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <20100701162741.GC4789@khazad-dum.debian.net> <201007012131.20031.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:35726 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752493Ab0GAX0I (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:26:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201007012131.20031.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, astarikovskiy@suse.de, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Thu, 01 Jul 2010, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > Soes your helper userspace util do the "differential" analysis that > > thinkpad-acpi used to (the "*" after values that changed since last read)? > No. > But this should not be important enough to not get this removed. Consider it a feature request ;-) > It's hard to re-implement the exact behaviour (which can be handy for > specific problems, I agree). > With: > watch -n1 ec_access -r > you can have a close look at specific registers and see them changing. > Whatabout: > ec_access -r -s time(s) > Reads the table once and again after "time" seconds with stars > where modifications happened. Then someone can plug AC or hit a button > and look at the diff in EC registers afterwards. > This should be sufficient? Yes. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh