From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, joeyli <jlee@suse.com>,
"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
pavel@denx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACER: Add support for ambient light sensor
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:55:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201206060055.59421.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHR064jYAFd06VYZvi90xZCyJCKEmEdKkmrim9mEn584CqRmzw@mail.gmail.com>
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?
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-05 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-01 17:11 [PATCH 1/2] ACER: Add support for accelerometer sensor Marek Vasut
2012-06-01 17:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACER: Add support for ambient light sensor Marek Vasut
2012-06-04 9:08 ` joeyli
2012-06-04 9:29 ` Marek Vasut
2012-06-04 11:13 ` Corentin Chary
2012-06-04 17:14 ` Marek Vasut
2012-06-05 12:49 ` Corentin Chary
2012-06-05 13:06 ` Marek Vasut
2012-06-05 22:55 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2012-06-06 1:22 ` Zhang Rui
2012-06-22 20:20 ` Marek Vasut
2012-06-04 8:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACER: Add support for accelerometer sensor joeyli
2012-06-05 22:52 ` Marek Vasut
2012-06-06 0:15 ` joeyli
2012-06-06 10:13 ` Marek Vasut
2012-06-26 18:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-06-26 18:52 ` Marek Vasut
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