Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Provide /sys/../ec with read/write access and some cleanups | From | Maxim Levitsky <> | Date | Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:47:13 +0300 |
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On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:02 +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > These patches are diffed against the test branch of the ACPI tree, but also > patch fine with 2.6.35-rc3. > > I thought about tainting the kernel if someone writes to the EC, but as > userspace can also write to graphics IO, PCI config or MSRs, it shouldn't > matter that much. > Eventually this should still be added (by a separate patch), one can easily > confuse the EC to not switch on the fans anymore. > > A small tool to read out and write to /sys/devices/system/ec/*/io can be > found here: > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/trenn/sources/ec/ec_access.c > > Len: Can you apply these into your test branch and schedule them for linux-next > and 2.6.36 if there are no objections, please. > > Thanks, > > Thomas
This is great patchset, I was even thinking doing that myself.
While at it, could you also provide a broken down table of EC GPEs like the one in /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ ?
Best regards, Maxim Levitsky
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