From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rich Townsend Subject: Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:26:54 -0500 Message-ID: <41F1031E.60507@bartol.udel.edu> References: <41E81C2C.8010809@bartol.udel.edu> <1105747983.7368.3.camel@tyrosine> <47e0449d05011419037877f931@mail.gmail.com> <41EA2C1D.3030909@bartol.udel.edu> <41EC7C7D.1070003@bartol.udel.edu> <41EC9316.80109@bartol.udel.edu> <41EDE2EA.7090404@bartol.udel.edu> <41F01923.1000503@bartol.udel.edu> <41F10180.60008@arrakis.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41F10180.60008-pQd4kjVL+REh2FBCd0jGRA@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Pedro Venda Cc: Acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Pedro Venda wrote: > Johan Vromans wrote: > | Rich Townsend writes: > | > | > |>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. What if you just had to run a perl script, and then add an "initrd=" line to your kernel boot parameters? Because the code would be *so* much cleaner if a lot of the tasks were moved to the DSDT; in particular, we could get rid of i2c_acpi_sbs, and thus remove the dependency of ACPI on I2C. cheers, Rich ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl