On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:58:34 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hallo Alexander, > > I don't know a thing about the applesmc driver, so just a few random > comments. Nicolas being the maintainer of this driver, his approval is > needed before your patch can go upstream anyway. > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:41:17 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > The AppleSMC is used for various tasks. It allows control over fans, > > the backlight, invokes the acceleration interrupt and stores a key, > > that is used to decrypt binaries on Mac OS X. > > > > This key is necessary to receive when virtualizing Mac OS X, but > > may not be distributed due to copyright restrictions. > > > > This patch makes reading this key easy by exporting it via sysfs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> > > Cc: Nicolas Boichat <nicolas at boichat.ch> > > Cc: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> > > Cc: Ren? Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> > > (...) Alexander, any news from this patch? I never heard you back from you since my review. If you are no longer interested in this patch, I'll just discard it. If you are still interested, please send an updated patch addressing my comments. -- Jean Delvare
