From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Venda Subject: Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:42:33 +0000 Message-ID: <41F106C9.5020404@arrakis.dhis.org> 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> <41F1031E.60507@bartol.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41F1031E.60507-OBnUx95tOyn10jlvfTC4gA@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: Rich Townsend Cc: Pedro Venda , Acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rich Townsend wrote: | 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=3D" | line to your kernel boot parameters? Because the code would be *so* muc= h | 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 o= n | I2C. I'd agree that the i2c-acpi dependency is not pretty. on the other hand... I'm still not liking the CM (dump, limited) interfac= e to control SBS (smart, sophisticated) batteries. yes, CM gets the informatio= n from the SBS hardware but I can't stop feeling loosing capabilities. any way, I'm willing to cooperate with you on either decision, although I seriously dislike the DSDT thing. regards, pedro venda. | | 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 | _______________________________________________ | Acpi-devel mailing list | Acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-devel - -- Pedro Jo=E3o Lopes Venda email: pjvenda-pQd4kjVL+REh2FBCd0jGRA@public.gmane.org http://arrakis.dhis.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB8QbJeRy7HWZxjWERAtVTAKDE8wO1QtEOSXAt+blvQka7KDGC0ACgtTLO ANWFnIdDuWs8CRQv1hkpTe8=3D =3DcSaT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- 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