Bug#760338: ITP: acpi-call -- Kernel module that enables you to call ACPI methods
On 09/03/2014 04:13 AM, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> This package is needed by tlp/tpacpi-bat (see bug #711471, ITP for tlp) to
> change battery (dis)charge thresholds on new ThinkPad models which don't
> support tp-smapi anymore.
>
> It may be useful for other purposes, though, but AFAIK, since bbswitch
> superseded it for toggling NVIDIA Optimus cards, the main use of this kernel
> module by the community is for setting battery thresholds.
>
> tlp (or, more precisely, tpacpi-bat) - if and when available in Debian - will
> need this kernel module for proper operation on new ThinkPad models; currently
> it has some kind of automatic installation function for acpi_call kernel
> module, but I think a an installation through Debian packages dependency system
> and dkms would be more compliant with Debian standards.
There is effort (by jak@) to get support for that into the kernel[1],
would this make acpi-call obsolete again?
[1] https://github.com/julian-klode/linux/commits/linux-3.14
Greets
Evgeni
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