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| From | Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH][v2] asus-rbtn: new driver for asus radio button for Windows 8 |
| Date | 2015-07-06 03:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <pJ3y1-1HX-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <pGZyy-5jw-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <pH6gG-6R3-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <pHoGD-4DO-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <pHGWS-84M-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <pI3A6-5zg-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
ATK4001 is an ACPI device for wireless hotkey, similar to how Dell and HP are doing it. It is just ASUS who decides LED should be controlled by software unlike HP whose LED is driven by hardware pins on mini card. On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 02 July 2015 15:10:39 Alex Hung wrote: >> Thanks for the support. I will create v3 based with LED triggers. >> >> Just for information. ASUS's wording is as below: >> >> Fn+F2 can be used to turn on or off all radio capabilities in the >> device (as known as airplane mode switch). I don't have any >> preferences on the name. We may use the term airplane-mode do if >> asus-rbtn is not preferred. Let me know if there are any suggestions. >> > > This is OK, but I though that ACPI ATK4001 device is some > multifunctional device, which is doing more then LED control... (At > least I understand it from your comments). So in this case I would not > call driver led/radio related. Right? > >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wednesday 01 July 2015 00:09:41 Alex Hung wrote: >> >> ATK4001 is an independent ACPI device, and Method(HSWC) is its method >> >> to control LED (actually it has other functions but only LED is needed >> >> so far). >> > >> > If this driver is for supporting ACPI ATK4001 device (which has couple >> > of methods, not only LED) it is really good idea to name it asus-rbtn? >> > >> > Darren, you as maintainer of platform drivers, what do you think? I >> > believe in future this driver will be extended to support more functions >> > and so name asus-rbtn will be confusing. >> > >> > -- >> > Pali Rohár >> > pali.rohar@gmail.com >> > > -- > Pali Rohár > pali.rohar@gmail.com -- Cheers, Alex Hung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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[PATCH][v2] asus-rbtn: new driver for asus radio button for Windows 8 Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com> - 2015-06-24 05:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH][v2] asus-rbtn: new driver for asus radio button for Windows 8 Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com> - 2015-07-06 03:40 +0200
Re: [PATCH][v2] asus-rbtn: new driver for asus radio button for Windows 8 Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2015-07-07 00:50 +0200
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