On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 14:12 +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote:

Hi Nicolas,

> About appletouch, I don't know exactly... If there is a consensus that
> the new value for ATP_THRESHOLD is better, it should probably stay
> there, and maybe be sent upstream.

OK. Not sure whether this then should not better be a config option
controllable via sysfs.

> > Apart from the (non-essential) core-temp patch, the patch that should
> > really make it into mainline is applesmc. I wonder whether you plan to
> > do this for 2.6.22 - such that we finally don't need any extra stuff
> > anymore ?
> 
> We can always keep some patches, even if they are non-essential (now
> that I figured out how to use git, creating the series of patches for a
> new kernel version is really easy).

That's true but I don't see the need if all the hw is supported in
vanilla linux after applesmc is in. I would rather send patches directly
upstream then...

> I'll work on applesmc, but don't except it for 2.6.22, as I think 2.6.21
> will be released very shortly, so the feature freeze for 2.6.22 will
> happen shortly. I'm also not very sure about the way my code is written,
> so it might require some important modifications.

Well 2.6.21 will still take >1month to be released so you have 6 weeks I
guess...

> > Also, how did you find out about all these SMC keys like 'ALV0' etc ?
> 
> By reverse-engineering the OS X driver.

wow! how ?

Soeren

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