I acknowledge that the SMM control method doesn't fit well into our current generic software abstractions for controlling hardware. I also acknowledge that this control has a right to exist if people find it useful. Further, I don't by the fact that it root can use it to brick a system as sufficient reason not to provide it. Root can already do worse... However, I'm not excited about extending toshiba_acpi to include /dev/toshiba SMM interface that is already provided by the toshiba driver. I'd rather see the 'toshiba' driver (perhaps renamed to be toshiba_smm) extended so that it is the only driver to provide this interface. BTW. I notice that both toshiba_acpi and toshiba ship in Fedora and can load on my satellite pro. However, fedora doesn't ship toshset -- is toshiba and /dev/toshiba useful without it? Are new machines still using this interface, or it is going away over time? thanks, -Len -- 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
