Dear Zhang Rui, > On 三, 2012-06-06 at 00:55 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > > 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? > > yes. > please refer to this thread > http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=132060809120911&w=2 > > I do not have time to do this right now, and it will be great if you are > interested in introducing the ACPI ALS driver. So, I finally raised from dead again ... sorry I didn't reply earlier. Apparently, one of my students is interested in fixing/writing such driver, therefore I'll land him my hardware and let him do it. I CCed him, please treat him well. Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
