On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Adding more people that were interested in the previous discussion. What was the exact status of the als class ? Rui Zhang are you still interested in this ? Thanks, -- 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
