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From: Hao Wei Tee <angelsl@in04.sg>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Expose conservation mode switch
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 23:18:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed147557-0431-34b4-e877-14647a3be479@in04.sg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75Vf3+1HPqeNbN3UEyhraA0FvrCHhNGaKwfsrtQauEdOGTw@mail.gmail.com>

On 30/5/2017 21:22, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Hao Wei Tee <angelsl@angelsl.xyz> wrote:
>> On 5/27/17 3:31 PM, Hao Wei Tee wrote:
>>> This exposes the battery conservation mode present on some (?) IdeaPads.
>>> The mode is set by calling ACPI method SBMC with argument 3 (on) or
>>> 5 (off). Status is reported in bit 5 of the return value of ACPI method
>>> GBMD.
>>>
>>> This patch was written based on an IdeaPad U430p. I'm not sure if the ACPI
>>> methods are the same across all IdeaPads, so it would be great if this got more
>>> testing across other models before it's merged.
>>
>> I got someone to test on an IdeaPad Y510p. It works on that too.
> 
> Do we have any other option that expose something via sysfs?

It's been 2 months, what can I do to get this patch merged, or alternatively some other
way of exposing this switch?

-- 
Hao Wei

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-05 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-27  7:31 [PATCH] platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Expose conservation mode switch Hao Wei Tee
2017-05-28 13:47 ` Hao Wei Tee
2017-05-30 13:22   ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-30 14:05     ` Hao Wei Tee
2017-06-11  5:07       ` Hao Wei Tee
2017-08-05 15:18     ` Hao Wei Tee [this message]
2017-08-06 18:35       ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-08-07 13:20         ` Hao Wei Tee
2017-08-13 12:15 ` Andy Shevchenko

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