On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:44:41PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > I was wondering if you could tell me about it. > I was just about to write a little driver that binds to PNP0C14 and tells the > user that they should not buy machines with WMI extensions and run Linux on them -- > but maybe an exception to that rule already exists? It would be helpful to export as much WMI information as possible - we can supply information to utilise it via HAL, which would at least provide support for doing things like poking the wireless and bluetooth hardware on the old HP tablets. I agree that WMI functionality is generally a bad sign, but where we can drive it I think we probably should be. > ps. while you're at it, what is the WACF005 Wacom Digitizer device also in the patch -- > I don't see that upstream either. It's handled by 8250_pnp.c now. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
