Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACER: Add support for ambient light sensor

[Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>]

On 三, 2012-06-06 at 00:55 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Corentin Chary,
> 
> [...]
> 
> > >> This is a generic device, and should be handled by ACPI core
> > >> (Samsung laptop have this too). See "ACPI ALS" on linux-acpi.
> > > 
> > > Saying this would be enough. Lee explained to me what this ACPI0008
> > > means, I'm quite new to the ACPI land so pardon my ignorance here. But
> > > it then boils down to Lee's question, why wasn't the patch for ACPI ALS
> > > that was already proposed accepted? And what can be done to get it in?
> > 
> > Yep, I've seen Lee's message latter. Regarding ACPI ALS status, it was
> > forgotten for a long time, and recently Zhang Rui told that he will
> > take another look at it, but nothing sure. If you want to know more
> > about the status, you can do a quick search on gmane using "ACPI ALS"
> > query on linux.acpi
> 
> Actually, going through the ACPI0008 patch, I see it introduced new sysfs class. 
> Maybe we should rather integrate it with Linux-IIO these days?
> 
yes.
please refer to this thread
http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=132060809120911&w=2

I do not have time to do this right now, and it will be great if you are
interested in introducing the ACPI ALS driver.

thanks,
rui