From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
astarikovskiy@suse.de, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] X86 platform drivers: Remove EC dump from thinkpad_acpi
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:26:03 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100701232603.GA15824@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007012131.20031.trenn@suse.de>
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Soes your helper userspace util do the "differential" analysis that
> > thinkpad-acpi used to (the "*" after values that changed since last read)?
> No.
> But this should not be important enough to not get this removed.
Consider it a feature request ;-)
> It's hard to re-implement the exact behaviour (which can be handy for
> specific problems, I agree).
> With:
> watch -n1 ec_access -r
> you can have a close look at specific registers and see them changing.
> Whatabout:
> ec_access -r -s time(s)
> Reads the table once and again after "time" seconds with stars
> where modifications happened. Then someone can plug AC or hit a button
> and look at the diff in EC registers afterwards.
> This should be sufficient?
Yes.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-01 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-01 15:02 Provide /sys/../ec with read/write access and some cleanups Thomas Renninger
2010-07-01 15:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] ACPI: Provide /sys/devices/system/ec/ Thomas Renninger
2010-07-09 19:18 ` Greg KH
2010-07-09 19:18 ` Greg KH
2010-07-01 15:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] ACPI: Provide /sys/devices/system/ec/*/io for binary access to the EC Thomas Renninger
2010-07-01 15:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] ACPI: Register EC io ports in /proc/ioports Thomas Renninger
2010-07-01 15:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] ACPI: Remove /proc/acpi/embedded_controller/ Thomas Renninger
2010-07-01 15:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] X86 platform drivers: Remove EC dump from thinkpad_acpi Thomas Renninger
2010-07-01 16:27 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-07-01 19:31 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-07-01 23:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2010-07-02 9:14 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-07-02 15:58 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-07-01 15:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] X86 platform driver: Fix section mismatch in wmi.c Thomas Renninger
2010-07-01 16:22 ` Provide /sys/../ec with read/write access and some cleanups Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-07-01 19:44 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-07-01 23:27 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-07-01 20:47 ` Maxim Levitsky
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