Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Feb 2008 06:53:13 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times |
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Hi!
> On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > > While I'm not trying to set you up for a firing squad, if you can show > > that the only use this driver has is as underlying support for Acer/HP > > xyz drivers, > > Certainly at the moment, this is the only real use it has (and the only reason > I spent any time working on a generic ACPI-WMI driver - probably one of the > reasons Kconfig is somewhat neglected - ACPI-WMI is a means to an end for me > (getting my laptop properly supported by another driver on top of it), not > the end itself). > > Although, given most of the other laptop drivers in drivers/misc use 'select' > for various things, I don't see the harm here - unless anyone else has a > great objection to acer-wmi and tc1100-wmi having 'select ACPI_WMI'?
I believe selct is the way to go here. What do acer-wmi handle? Additional buttons? Leds? Temperatures? Fan states?
The laptops will boot fine without it, right?
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