From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933700AbYBGW2R (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:28:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757874AbYBGW2B (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:28:01 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:40066 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758033AbYBGW2A (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:28:00 -0500 From: Len Brown Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:27:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: kernel list , Linux-pm mailing list , Carlos Corbacho , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org References: <20080207214715.GA15211@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20080207214715.GA15211@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802071727.38743.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:47, Pavel Machek wrote: > > See? It even has completely useless help text. > > Does WMI stand for Windows Management Instrumentation? It is some > server management feature? What is it good for? Thank you for the feedback, Pavel. There is an additional patch which creates Documentation/acpi/wmi.txt, but I witheld it from this batch because it needs to be revised. If you are not subscribed to the linux-acpi list you can find it here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=120217838010224&w=2 Clearly we neeed to update the Kconfig doc as well when we revise and push that patch. -Len ps. the answers to your questions are "yes" and "see NOTE" below. > WMI (EXPERIMENTAL) (ACPI_WMI) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ? > > This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI mapper device (PNP0C14) > found on some systems. > > NOTE: You will need another driver or userspace application on top of > this to actually use anything defined in the ACPI-WMI mapper. > >