From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jay Aurabind <jay.aurabind@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: The Kernel knows. But how ? Did the acpi make a secret dead drop ?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 12:16:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190106111653.GA9882@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOsEZoiO8d3KRi95RP0cZ9u8eqPx+537+NJLf-jAZrzN+r50aQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 02:22:34PM +0530, Jay Aurabind wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The subject line might be a bit dramatic, but I assure you my question is
> isn't.
>
> I have a 3-axis accelerometer (LIS3LV02DL) in my laptop which shows up as
> an input device. Since its x86, I am assuming the necessary information was
> encoded in ACPI Tables. But I cannot find any mention of this device in the
> acpi tables exposed by the kernel.
Odds are it is an i2c device, that's the way it normally is hooked up on
a laptop, not through ACPI as you have noticed.
Does that help?
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-06 8:52 The Kernel knows. But how ? Did the acpi make a secret dead drop ? Jay Aurabind
2019-01-06 11:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-01-06 11:19 ` Valentin Vidic
2019-01-06 12:47 ` Jay Aurabind
2019-01-06 13:00 ` Valentin Vidic
2019-01-06 13:28 ` Jay Aurabind
2019-01-06 14:07 ` Valentin Vidic
2019-01-06 15:02 ` Jay Aurabind
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