Re: R52 hdaps support?

From: Robert Love
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 18:04:43 EST


On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 17:10 -0400, Keenan Pepper wrote:

> I recently splurged on a new ThinkPad R52 (because it was one of the few laptops
> in the store with /all/ linux-supported hardware), but the 2.6.14-rc1 kernel I
> just compiled says "hdaps: supported laptop not found".
>
> Looking at the source I notice there's a whitelist of models that goes up to
> R51... How badly could it break if I just went ahead and added R52? Should it be
> "NORMAL" or "INVERT"?


The R52 should work and nothing should break. If it works, I'll add it.

As for normal versus inverted: You probably want NORMAL, but you will
have to verify it and let me know. You'll know you have the wrong one
when the readings are, well, inverted.

Robert Love


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