Re: Smart Battery System driver

Matthew Garrett
2005-01-15T00:13:03Z

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:23 -0500, Rich Townsend wrote:

> ...provides access to the SBS via a new /proc/acpi/sbs interface, and
> also provides a "legacy" /proc/acpi/battery interface that current
> battery-monitoring tools can access. This driver depends on Bruno's
> i2c-acpi-ec driver, which I have included with my source code since a
> couple of bug fixes were necessary.

One thing I've been meaning to ask - several Thinkpads have an
interesting design issue, whereby reading certain smbus addresses can
render the machine unbootable without a motherboard replacement. As a
result, i2c-piix refuses to load on Thinkpads. Does something similar
need to be done for i2c-acpi-ec, or does it only provide i2c access to
devices connected to the embedded controller?

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