On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 06:20 +0800, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008 12:11:37 am Thomas Renninger wrote: > > On a HP tx2500z laptop one thermal device provides this function: > > Name (REGN, "Processor Thermal Zone") > > I wonder what we can do to get this added to the ACPI spec or to make > vendors use the same function for this. > What about trying for above "REGN" as it already exists on HPs. > Also try for _NAM (or similar), document that we do this and tell > vendors that it's a good thing to provide a sane string/name for > thermal_zones on Linux. > On ACPI everything that does not start with "_" means unspecified > and the function should only be used internally and not by the OS... Sounds good. But I guess it's not easy to push this the vendors, is it? thanks, rui -- 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
