On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:03 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:12 -0500, John Belmonte wrote: > > The proposed patch makes /dev/toshiba, and hence toshset, work on more > > laptops-- it's a no-brainer to anyone with a practical mindset. > > Making toshset work is not a practical goal. I suggest you get a dictionary out and look up the work practical. Because making it works is eminently practical. > Making hardware "just work" > without any vendor specific commands is a better goal. Exposing low > level, device specific, hardware details up through a device node isn't > a good plan at all. > Well Toshiba who in part wrote the ACPI specification take *EXACTLY* the same route on Windows. There is a device driver that creates a TVALD device (the name has changed slightly on newwer models and I cannot remember it off hand). To change an HCI setting you open up the TVALD and do a ioctl in *exactly* the same manner as you do on /dev/toshiba. The similarity is so striking I could almost say Toshiba copied me. Now if Toshiba who in part wrote the ACPI specification think this is the way to go, and the people who know the most about the HCI in the free software world also think this is the way to go, what are your qualifications to argue with them, given you have virtually no knowledge of the Toshiba HCI and would not appear to even own a Toshiba designed and manufactured laptop anyway. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom. -- 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
