Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:09:43 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH linux-acpi] Correct wakeup set error and append a new column PCI ID |
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On Wed 2008-01-02 10:03:59, Yi Yang wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 00:20 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > /proc/acpi/wakeup is also case-sensitive, case-insensitive is better. > > > > Why? > A user uses device bus id like 'C093' to enable or disable wakeup of the > device, for example > > echo "C093" > /proc/acpi/wakeup > > but i think "c093" should also be ok. i.e.
Why do you think so? Unix is generally case-sensitive. I see ascii text in .../wakeup. Maybe some bios vendor is crazy enough to have wakeup devices called 'wake', 'Wake', 'wAke', 'waKe', 'wakE'?
> > Maybe this file should be left for compatibility and we should present > > something reasonable in /sys? Can't you already get PCI ID from sysfs > > node? > PCI ID can be gotten from sysfs, but it is a unique identifier for a > device, a user can get device name from /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids in any > dstribution by PCI ID, he/she is unnecessary to use bus number to get > device name, bus number is platform-specific, but PCI ID is > platform-independent.
If the same info can be gotten from 'sysfs node' field, new field should not be added.
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