On Thu 2008-02-07 17:27:38, Len Brown wrote: > On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:47, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > See? It even has completely useless help text. > > > > Does WMI stand for Windows Management Instrumentation? It is some > > server management feature? What is it good for? > > Thank you for the feedback, Pavel. > > There is an additional patch which creates > Documentation/acpi/wmi.txt, but I witheld it from > this batch because it needs to be revised. > If you are not subscribed to the linux-acpi list > you can find it here: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=120217838010224&w=2 > > Clearly we neeed to update the Kconfig doc as well when > we revise and push that patch. +ACPI-WMI mapping driver + +Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> + +Updated: 5th February 2008 + +1) About this guide + +This guide is a basic introduction on how to interact with the ACPI-WMI mapper +driver in the kernel - it presumes you already have a basic knowledge of +ACPI-WMI, ACPI and the hardware you are writing the driver for. + +2) What is ACPI-WMI + +At its simplest, ACPI-WMI is a proprietary extension to the ACPI specification +from Microsoft to allow WMI (their implementation of WBEM) to access +instrumentation data and methods in ACPI from userspace, via the ACPI _HID +device PNP0C14. + +3) What is the ACPI-WMI mapper + +The Linux ACPI-WMI driver is the implementation of this mapper for Linux. Yes, please. This needs translation into plain english. What is WBEM, in plain terms? What is it good for? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
