[needs-packaging] thinklmi (userland)

[Jan Dittberner]

Linux mainline kernels since 5.14 contain sysfs code for the WMI interface
to the BIOS of Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c

The kernel module is already available in the linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r) package in Jammy (i.e. as /lib/modules/5.15.0-18-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.ko in the 5.15.0-18-generic variant).

There is a small userspace utility to interact with this kernel module at https://github.com/lenovo/thinklmi/tree/master/thinklmi-user. It would be helpful to have this available too.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.