On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I???m maintaining the pidgin-blinklight plugin formerly known as > gaim-thinklight. I started it with only Thinkpads in mind, but people > have been requesting support for other laptops as well, mostly ASUS. > > Now it seems that the ASUS driver is adopting some standard interface > for leds in /sys/class/led, which would make it easy for my plugin to > just find a suitable LED and use it, independent of the laptop model. > > Are there any plans to include /sys/class/led support anytime soon in > thinkpad-acpi, including the thinklight LED? I???d very welcome that! Yes. But since I *also* have to fix the led class while at it so that it implements a proper complete API instead of one that is only good when you have full control of the leds, it is low priority. Hint: on thinkpads the *firmware* is the one who has full control of the leds, and it *doesn't* care what the *kernel* thinks the state of the leds is, or should be... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
