Re: Polling for battery stauts and lost keypresses

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 08:34 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 8/19/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 11:50 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:31, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:17:01 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 2. Quite often there are OEM drivers that are tweaked to a specific
> > > > > hardware and involve hardware-specific hacks.
> > > >
> > > > If I remember correctly (damn, I can't find a way to do a search on
> > > > the LKML archives ...) there was someone working on Dell stuff, at
> > > > least as far as fans and thermal sensors were concerned (based on the
> > > > code from Massimo Dal Zotto) to integrate them with the kernel sensors
> > > > framework. However, some of those patches where NACKed by someone from
> > > > Dell because they were sort of "guessy" about the addresses to poke
> > > > around to get the information, instead of using the data provided by
> > > > the BIOS on where to look for them ... however, there hasn't been any
> > > > news about that that stuff since ...
> > > >
> > >
> > > As far as I remember that person from Dell was not ready to disclose
> > > details of their SMBIOS :( so it naturally went nowhere.
> >
> > actually Dell did document their smbios ...
> >
> > http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/index.html
> >
> > there was also a posting from Dell with details, but I assume that's
> > included in their libsmbios...
> >
> 
> I could not find any fan control or temperature monitoring references
> there. Maybe I missed them.
there was an lkml posting from a Dell guy with a full table, just that
my google skills seem to be not successful at locating it right now.