Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACER: Add support for ambient light sensor

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Dear Corentin Chary,

[...]

> >> This is a generic device, and should be handled by ACPI core
> >> (Samsung laptop have this too). See "ACPI ALS" on linux-acpi.
> > 
> > Saying this would be enough. Lee explained to me what this ACPI0008
> > means, I'm quite new to the ACPI land so pardon my ignorance here. But
> > it then boils down to Lee's question, why wasn't the patch for ACPI ALS
> > that was already proposed accepted? And what can be done to get it in?
> 
> Yep, I've seen Lee's message latter. Regarding ACPI ALS status, it was
> forgotten for a long time, and recently Zhang Rui told that he will
> take another look at it, but nothing sure. If you want to know more
> about the status, you can do a quick search on gmane using "ACPI ALS"
> query on linux.acpi

Actually, going through the ACPI0008 patch, I see it introduced new sysfs class. 
Maybe we should rather integrate it with Linux-IIO these days?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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