Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver

Pedro Venda
2005-01-21T13:20:00Z

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Johan Vromans wrote:
| Rich Townsend <rhdt-OBnUx95tOyn10jlvfTC4gA@public.gmane.org> writes:
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|>I do this because everything in /lib/modules/XXX/kernel/* gets
|>clobbered when you do a make modules_install from the kernel source
|>tree;
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| I see.
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|>I have recently realized that the whole SBS functionality can be
|>implemented in terms of control methods in the DSDT, without the
|>need for any kernel drivers.
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| Nice. This would require a kernel recompile/reboot for each DSDT
| modification...

not nice, I guess. 99.9% of the interested (me included) wouldn't be able to
patch their DSDT and with generated ASL (is it ASL or AML or... ACPI language)
code for their specific case.

but academically interesting :-)

regards,
pedro venda.
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Pedro João Lopes Venda
email: pjvenda-pQd4kjVL+REh2FBCd0jGRA@public.gmane.org
http://arrakis.dhis.org
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