Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:25:03 +0100 (CET) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] |
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> devicefs is just a means of exporting this to userspace, be that for > usage with the userspace acpi tools, or for hinv like programs. > As I mentioned earlier, ACPI enumerates pretty much everything in the > system, even if theres no driver for it. > If there is a driver for it, it can register things like "I support > these power saving states" with driverfs for additional functionality. > > It would be nice at some point to get some of the other (pre-ACPI) > busses registering stuff there too, for completeness.
I had a patch which showed ISAPnP devices within driverfs at one point. Once the switch to struct device is in the kernel, I'll dig it out and bring it up to date.
--Kai
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