RE: smartbattery support

["Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

In this case, the EC based SMBus host isn't EC. Actually it's a child of
EC. You must use its HID (ACPI0001) to find it. I suggest you write a
new driver for the SMBus host.

Thanks,
Shaohua

>-----Original Message-----
>From: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org [mailto:acpi-devel-
>admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Pedro Venda
>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:26 AM
>To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
>Subject: Re: [ACPI] smartbattery support
>
>Pedro Venda wrote:
>>>> Device (SMBC)
>>>>                    {
>>>>                        Name (_HID, "ACPI0001")
>>>>                        Name (_EC, 0x1820)
>>>>                        Device (SBS0)
>>>>                        {
>>>>                            Name (_HID, "ACPI0002")
>>>>                            Name (_SBS, 0x02)
>>>>                        }
>>>>                    }
>
>hi everyone,
>
>i can't get an acpi_handle for the ec host.
>
>i am writing code in bruno ducrot's i2c-ec-smbus driver and i'm trying
>to detect the smbus address from the ACPI's ASL code above.
>
>i'm trying to acpi_get_handle(NULL,"_EC",ec->handle) but it fails
>because of the parent=NULL (i think).
>
>i suspect i need to use the ec driver's device handler in the parent
>paramenter of acpi_get_handle(). is that correct?
>
>or am i doing everything wrong?
>
>[]
>
>
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