On Fri, 03 Jun 2011, Evgeni Golov wrote: > [ CC'ing Henrique as he is the maintainer for thinkpad_acpi and knows a > lot about Thinkpads ] > > On 06/03/2011 02:53 PM, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 14:09, Evgeni Golov <evg...@debian.org> wrote: > >> Looking at the source, a whitelist entry of the type > >> "LENOVO", "ThinkPad" (without a model number) should work too. > >> Could you try this? I'd really love to avoid patching every time Lenovo > >> releases a new thinkpad. > > > > Yep, that variant seems to work (on my T420s) without any issues. > > That's great. I guess we can just assume every Lenovo branded Thinkpad > has a working EC. Or do you disagree, Henrique?
Look at what thinkpad-acpi does in *2.6.39*, instead. It can detect all current ThinkPad ECs just fine, including ones where the factory screwed up, and shipped a pre-release firmware (happened to none other than Keith Packard himself :p). -- "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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
