Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261474AbUIOGtR (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:49:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261724AbUIOGtB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:49:01 -0400 Received: from [66.35.79.110] ([66.35.79.110]:6333 "EHLO www.hockin.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261474AbUIOGrs (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:47:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:47:35 -0700 From: Tim Hockin To: Jan Dittmer Cc: Greg KH , Robert Love , Kay Sievers , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer Message-ID: <20040915064735.GA11272@hockin.org> References: <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> <4147E525.4000405@ppp0.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4147E525.4000405@ppp0.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 905 Lines: 22 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... - 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/