[ltp] getting hdaps up and running on the w530

[Evgeni Golov]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:32:45PM +0900, Raider Sail wrote:

> > tp-acpi and tp-smapi have nothing (!) in common. tp-acpi allows the use 
> > of IBM/Lenovo specific ACPI calls on ThinkPads, whereas tp-smapi allows 
> > the use of the embedded-controller directly.
> 
> THANK YOU! Just to be clear, you are talking about 
> http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/ hosted at 
> git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git correct? Is 
> the development process to patch the latest 2.6 kernel and 
> forward-port that to 3.x?
> I'm getting clearer but still not fully confident where the latest 
> code for hdaps.ko and hdapsd.c is.

The latest code is in linux.git on git.kernel.org.
That repo you are linking seems outdated.

> > We have a hdaps in-kernel, so the best solution would be getting docs
> > for the device and integrating support into the existing hdaps module.
> > Then we can probably let tp-smapi to rest, finally.
> 
> I was thinking along the same lines: why keep trying to integrate 
> external pieces when we have a module that if developed properly and 
> tested well, changes would be readily accepted into existing code? 
> Even if changes are significant, if we test them well, would raise few 
> objections.
> Couldn't the developer team peek at their own documentation and 
> compare it to 
> ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-3.13.fc20/linux-3.13.8-200.tpx.fc20.x86_64/drivers/platform/x86/hdaps.c 
> and just tell us what's missing?

If it would be that easy. I'd still prefer interface-docs.

> According to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System 
> the device used to be a Analog Devices ADXL320 accelerometer. One of 
> our questions could be "is it still, or what else is it?"

Yepp, thats why we need docs.

Regards
Evgeni

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