From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julian Andres Klode Subject: Re: Anyone working on charge control via ACPI in newer ThinkPads? Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:20:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20131028122036.GA15963@jak-x230> References: <20131028094241.GA9152@jak-x230> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f42.google.com ([209.85.214.42]:46665 "EHLO mail-bk0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756168Ab3J1MUl (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:20:41 -0400 Received: by mail-bk0-f42.google.com with SMTP id my10so1791313bkb.1 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 05:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131028094241.GA9152@jak-x230> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:42:41AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering whether anyone is working on kernel support for > (dis-)charge controlling features of the current (or last) > generation ThinkPads, in order to prevent any duplicate > work. If not, I'd like to do this. > > This could be done in at least two ways: A stand-alone module > or by extending the thinkpad-acpi module. The latter is probably > easier. > Please note that I'm not subscribed to the lists. I am only subscribed to the driverdev list, but I did not CC that one. I only worked on the nvec driver in staging thus far, but the thinkpad-acpi code seems relatively straight forward for me to dive into. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Please do not top-post if possible.