Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:50:49 +0200 | From | Jan Dittmer <> | Subject | Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer |
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Tim Hockin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:45:57AM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote: > >>Tim Hockin wrote: >> >>>ACPI events might come out of a kobject "/sys/devices/acpi" with an event >>>"event" and payload "button/power 00000000 00000001" or whatever the >>>actual values work out to be. >>> >>>What's insane about that? Currently we have a separate /proc/acpi/event >>>file which spits out "button/power 00000000 00000001". >>> >> >>What's wrong about fixing acpi to have something like >>/sys/devices/acpi/buttons/power/, that spits out the event? >>Just curious... > > > You'd still need to spit out a payload with the status. Interesting idea > for the evolution of acpi, though...
Well, what's the status supposed to mean? Is this something like buttondown, buttonup, ...? Couldn't this be the 'event'. I mean that it is an event is kind of selfexplaining if it comes through the event layer.
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