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FromKarol Kozimor <>
SubjectRe: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer
DateWed, 15 Sep 2004 10:19:50 +0200
On Wednesday 15 of September 2004 08:45, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> What's wrong about fixing acpi to have something like
> /sys/devices/acpi/buttons/power/, that spits out the event?
> Just curious...

Well, the fact that you'd have to somehow:
1) pass the list of all the drivers that register notify handlers to the 
userspace
2) make userspace daemons hold ~10 sysfs nodes open

Not that it's not feasible, but that's simply ugly IMHO.
Best regards,

-- 
Karol Kozimor
kkozimor@aurox.org
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