Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264261AbUIOJK3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:10:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264299AbUIOJK3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:10:29 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.249]:40091 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264261AbUIOJHq (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:07:46 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:07:45 -0700 From: Andrew Grover Reply-To: Andrew Grover To: Tim Hockin Subject: Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer Cc: Greg KH , Robert Love , Kay Sievers , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040915044830.GA4919@hockin.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040910235409.GA32424@kroah.com> <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> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1150 Lines: 23 On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:48:30 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > ACPI *has* it's own event system. It's fine, but it's Yet Another Event > System. I'd love to see it use this. It has mostly the same behaviors, > except it has a data payload (a string and couple unsigned ints, if I > recall). If this API can't handle that, then we have to keep ACPI's > current event system. Wouldn't it be nicer to remove code and encourage > migrating towards standard(ish) APIs? > > Again, other than payload, why NOT use this API for ACPI? IIRC the two possible future destinations for ACPI events are this, and the input layer. There are some ACPI events that clearly should go through this mechanism (e.g. thermal), some the input layer (e.g. weird laptop extra keys), and maybe some in between? I know David Bronaugh was looking into this a few weeks ago, maybe he'll pop back up. My 2c -- Andy - 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/