Need info about ACPI - implementing, done ....

[Nate Lawson]

Artur Bać wrote:
> Saturday 26 of January 2008 23:42:03 Mikael Ikivesi napisał(a):
>> I really hope you can make it.
>  
> Idid it! after 3 days of diging acpi specifications , till i found
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx

Congrats, glad to see people digging into acpi themselves.

> I'm so happy becouse this is my first at all kernel module/driver 
> in my life i have ever written.
> 
> very hot uncleaned code atached bellow.
> 
> Short abstract, tomorrow I will write more,
> There is no ACPI , there is Microsoft invention combo  of ACPI+WMI+MOF
> so we call acpi  method which calls wmi method with code located in bios or 
> embbeded as MOF data into acpi ...

Yeah, it would be better to implement a generic WMI driver and then call 
it from your wireless switch driver.  Not all laptops will support this 
method of calling into WMI via ACPI since it's not a standard.

-- 
Nate