Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:22:17 +0200 | Subject | Re: RFC [PATCH] acpi: allow SMBus access | From | Bruno Ducrot <> |
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:12:21PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> > > To get battery readings on some laptops it is necessary to interface > with the SMBus that hangs of the EC. However, the current > implementation of the EC driver does not permit other modules > read/write access. > > A trivial solution is to change acpi_ec_read/write from static to > nonstatic, and export the symbols so other modules can use them. > > This patch is based on the current 2.6.17 kernel sources.
I don't think this patch is correct, or else I would have already asked this patch being added to mainline.
-- Bruno Ducrot
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