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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:52:29 -0400
From: John Belmonte <john@neggie.net>
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Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] filling in ACPI method access via sysfs namespace
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Alex Williamson wrote:
>    Here's another approach that's far less ugly than the last and is
> much more powerful.  The code is a little over half the size as a
> bonus.  Rather than specifically poking for certain methods and exposing
> them, this patch exposes everything.  The down side is that all reading
> and writing of the files need to use binary acpi data structures.  This
> interface certainly provides "shoot yourself in the foot" potential, but
> the access to the namespace from userspace is hard to beat.  Any
> thoughts on this approach versus the last?  This interface and a simple
> set of libraries to go along with it has a lot of potential.  Thanks,

The limitation of this interface is that it's not able to call an ACPI 
method with some arguments and get the return value, correct?

-John


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