Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device

Hi!

> Whilst sort of on the subject (AC power switches and AC power events)
> I'd like to see some standard way of exporting power/battery information
> to userspace. Currently, the ARM handhelds use kernel emulation of an
> APM bios and export the battery info as part of that. Making ARM emulate
> ACPI interfaces doesn't appeal. The answer could be a battery sysfs
> class and the above system events interface but I'm open to other
> suggestions.

Battery sysfs class would be _very_ welcome. Both existing interfaces
(APM and ACPI) are crap :-(.
								Pavel
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References:
- [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
  - From: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
- Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
  - From: Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]>
- Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
  - From: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
- Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
  - From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <[email protected]>
- Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
  - From: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>

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