Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver

Pavel Machek
2005-01-23T16:02:45Z

Hi!

> |>I do this because everything in /lib/modules/XXX/kernel/* gets
> |>clobbered when you do a make modules_install from the kernel source
> |>tree;
> |
> |
> | I see.
> |
> |
> |>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.
> |
> |
> | 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 :-)

Well, we could just ask Acer to include that SBS code into their
DSDTs....
Pavel
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