From 0a30bde586e72d9f1e79e3c023ef874e563837d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos Corbacho Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:36:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 84839 b: refs/heads/master c: 20b4514799ebcfb04b45537e90e421cb73fd0cc9 h: refs/heads/master i: 84837: 01766f02c82d2f122810782c599b03bb25aacc4e 84835: 1394c85dab0c1261284775bacf0fc07499f333e6 84831: 64c7683057933e395fcf2f9bfe87b8ea3fb0670b v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 70e4ea688b7a..e56552ddad00 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 543a956140e1f57331c0e528d2367106057aeca0 +refs/heads/master: 20b4514799ebcfb04b45537e90e421cb73fd0cc9 diff --git a/trunk/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/trunk/drivers/acpi/Kconfig index 65da19bd0bee..f688c214be0c 100644 --- a/trunk/drivers/acpi/Kconfig +++ b/trunk/drivers/acpi/Kconfig @@ -207,11 +207,22 @@ config ACPI_WMI depends on X86 depends on EXPERIMENTAL help - This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI mapper device (PNP0C14) - found on some systems. + This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI (Windows Management + Instrumentation) mapper device (PNP0C14) found on some systems. - NOTE: You will need another driver or userspace application on top of - this to actually use anything defined in the ACPI-WMI mapper. + ACPI-WMI is a proprietary extension to ACPI to expose parts of the + ACPI firmware to userspace - this is done through various vendor + defined methods and data blocks in a PNP0C14 device, which are then + made available for userspace to call. + + The implementation of this in Linux currently only exposes this to + other kernel space drivers. + + This driver is a required dependency to build the firmware specific + drivers needed on many machines, including Acer and HP laptops. + + It is safe to enable this driver even if your DSDT doesn't define + any ACPI-WMI devices. config ACPI_ASUS tristate "ASUS/Medion Laptop Extras"