Re: [ACPI] Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi!

> Len Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I deleted /proc/acpi/button on purpose,
> > did you have a use for those files?
> 
> There are various cases where it's useful to know whether a laptop is
> shut or not, and /proc/acpi/button seems to be the only place where that
> information is made available at the moment.
> 

Unless it was in obsolete-feature-removal file for a year.... changing userspace
interface is bad idea in the middle of stable series.
				Pavel
-- 
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]
  Powered by Linux