Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261610AbUIOGrO (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:47:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261474AbUIOGrO (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:47:14 -0400 Received: from port-212-202-157-208.static.qsc.de ([212.202.157.208]:52930 "EHLO zoidberg.portrix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261711AbUIOGqS (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:46:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4147E525.4000405@ppp0.net> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:45:57 +0200 From: Jan Dittmer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040830) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Hockin CC: Greg KH , Robert Love , Kay Sievers , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer References: <20040911165300.GA17028@kroah.com> <20040913144553.GA10620@vrfy.org> <20040915000753.GA24125@kroah.com> <20040915010901.GA19524@vrfy.org> <20040915011146.GA27782@hockin.org> <1095214229.20763.6.camel@localhost> <20040915031706.GA909@hockin.org> <20040915034229.GA30747@kroah.com> <20040915044830.GA4919@hockin.org> <20040915050904.GA682@kroah.com> <20040915062129.GA9230@hockin.org> In-Reply-To: <20040915062129.GA9230@hockin.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 20 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... Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/