On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:47, Pavel Machek wrote: > > See? It even has completely useless help text. > > Does WMI stand for Windows Management Instrumentation? It is some > server management feature? What is it good for? Thank you for the feedback, Pavel. There is an additional patch which creates Documentation/acpi/wmi.txt, but I witheld it from this batch because it needs to be revised. If you are not subscribed to the linux-acpi list you can find it here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=120217838010224&w=2 Clearly we neeed to update the Kconfig doc as well when we revise and push that patch. -Len ps. the answers to your questions are "yes" and "see NOTE" below. > WMI (EXPERIMENTAL) (ACPI_WMI) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ? > > This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI mapper device (PNP0C14) > found on some systems. > > NOTE: You will need another driver or userspace application on top of > this to actually use anything defined in the ACPI-WMI mapper. > > - 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
