On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:44, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > Hello all, > > The following five patches (against acpi test) add support for Acer laptops > (2005 and newer) that define the PNP0C14 _HID device in ACPI (aka the Windows > Management Instrumentation Device). no, PNP0C14 is not specific to acer, and a platform-specific driver should not be necessary to handle it. I started a wmi.c a while back, and planned to get it out on the list by the end of July. I've got only one laptop that I can test it on (an HP). Perhaps you can help me test a generic wmi.c on your Acer? thanks, -Len > There are two known, supported ACPI devices so far that are attached to > PNP0C14 in the DSDTs of supported laptops that I've seen: > > 1) \_SB.AMW0 (some 2005 - 2006 laptops) > 2) \_SB.WMID (some 2006 - present laptops) > > acer_acpi can enable and disable the wireless and bluetooth devices on these > laptops through the methods with this _HID device (especially useful since > many Acer laptops ship with software controlled switches for these). On AMW0 > laptops, we can also enable the mail LED, and on WMID, alter the brightness > of the backlight. > > For one laptop, we also apply an old quirk with the keyboard controller to > make the multimedia keys emit scancodes. > > Any comments, thoughts, criticisms, etc are all welcome - if it isn't painfully > obvious already, this is my first kernel driver. > > -Carlos - 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
