On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:51:58PM +0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > 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. And Dell provided us with a set of userspace drivers to use their smbios functionality and still encouraged me to move large chunks of them to a kernel driver. > 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. You're really not selling yourself here. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
