good description, Carlos. applied. thanks, -Len On Thursday 07 February 2008 20:19, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 3:51 PM, Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > > > > Do you have list of hardware/platforms that require this feature to > > > > get the hardware to work? (acer abc123, tcm1100 xyz) > > > > > > I have a very long list of Acer laptops that are supported - which is far > > > too long, and changes on far too much of a regular basis to put in there. > > > > > > Perhaps adding something like "This driver is also a required dependency > > > to build the firmware specific drivers needed for many laptops, including > > > Acer and HP machines"? > > Would this be acceptable then? > > -Carlos > --- > ACPI: WMI: Improve Kconfig entry > > From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > As Pavel Machek has pointed out, the Kconfig entry for WMI is pretty > non-descriptive. > > Rewrite it so that it explains what ACPI-WMI is, and why anyone > would want to enable it. > > Many thanks to Ray Lee for ideas on this. > > Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> > CC: Ray Lee <ray-lk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 19 +++++++++++++++---- > 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > index b7fbf16..ea763ef 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig > @@ -207,11 +207,22 @@ config ACPI_WMI > depends on EXPERIMENTAL > depends on X86 > help > - This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI mapper device (PNP0C14) > - found on some systems. > + This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI (Windows Management > + Instrumentation) 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. > + ACPI-WMI is a proprietary extension to ACPI to expose parts of the > + ACPI firmware to userspace - this is done through various vendor > + defined methods and data blocks in a PNP0C14 device, which are then > + made available for userspace to call. > + > + The implementation of this in Linux currently only exposes this to > + other kernel space drivers. > + > + This driver is a required dependency to build the firmware specific > + drivers needed on many machines, including Acer and HP laptops. > + > + It is safe to enable this driver even if your DSDT doesn't define > + any ACPI-WMI devices. > > config ACPI_ASUS > tristate "ASUS/Medion Laptop Extras" > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - 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
