On 23.02.2009, at 09:47, Jean Delvare wrote: > 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. Oh phew I almost forgot about it. I'll take your comments into account and send a new one this week :-). Alex
