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SubjectRe: patch [0/2]: acpi: add generic removable drive bay support
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:21:23PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:58:42 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:13:05PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> >
> > Firstly, thanks for this - I wrote some related code a while ago. A
> > couple of questions...
> >
> > > can then be used by udev to unmount or rescan depending on the event. It will
> > > create a proc entry under /proc/acpi/bay for "eject" and for "status". Writing
> >
> > Do we really want it under /proc? It would seem to make more sense for
> > it to be under /sys.
>
> I agree - this is under proc because this is an acpi driver, and the acpi
> subsystem is still using the /proc fs for driver/user space interface. I
> thought I would just conform to their standard.

It's my understanding from talking with Len that he'd like to see /proc/acpi/
go away over time, so adding more to it seems to be at odds with that goal.

Dave
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