On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I was looking at the DSDT of a new samsung laptop (I can send you the >> output of acpidump if interested), and it export a standard ACPI ALS >> device. So, it's actually great to see vendor using that, but it seems >> that the series adding support for that and sent back in 2009 is not >> available in the kernel. I'd really like to use my the ALS, what's the >> current status of the driver ? Still blocked because we don't have a >> generic sysfs class ? If yes, can't we just use a non-standard >> interface ? It would still be better than no driver at all. > > Yes, I think ACPI ALS support has been waiting for hardware to justify > its existence. > > When it first entered the spec, we were excited to see it was present > in some high-end laptops, but IIR on closer examination the AML turned > out to be dummy code. > > If you can verify that your Samsung really does implement ACPI ALS, > then that is all we need to stumble forward. > > thanks, > -Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center Hello, As stated in my previous mails, the implementation on this laptop is perfectly functional, and since Windows 7 seems to be able to use ACPI ALS nativelly [1] I suspect new (high end ?) laptop will all support that. Is there any plan to revive this driver for 3.4 or 3.5 ? Should someone repost the last version of the previous patchset for discussion ? And no, on this laptop ALS is definitively not a gadget. Thanks, - http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/0/2/3027D574-C433-412A-A8B6-5E0A75D5B237/ambient-light-sensors.docx -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net -- 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
