From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nico Golde Subject: Re: inconsistency in /proc/acpi directory structure? Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:45:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20070809174528.GA7282@ngolde.de> References: <20070809123943.GD3939@ngolde.de> <200708091202.54943.lenb@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc" Return-path: Received: from cg-p07-fb.rzone.de ([81.169.146.215]:56377 "EHLO cg-p07-fb.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752253AbXHIRqm (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:46:42 -0400 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (fruni-mo-p07-ob.mail [192.168.63.183]) by gibbsson-fb-03.store (RZmta 10.2) with ESMTP id i068c2j79GQiFs for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:46:40 +0200 (MEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200708091202.54943.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, * Len Brown [2007-08-09 19:25]: > I have to second what Henrique wrote. > Please avoid /proc/acpi/* whenever you can can. > We are trying to get rid of it completely, > but that is only partly done. I know about that and it's a typical kernel hacker argument,=20 but don't forget people want to have working software in the=20 meantime of your switch ;) > I really resist changes to /proc/acpi/* because > I consider it legacy and would rather the effort > be focused on the new sysfs interfaces. I will switch step by step. From what I can see not really=20 much things apart from the acpi version already switched to=20 sysfs. Maybe I missed it. I will answer in detail on=20 Henriques mail hopefully tomorrow. Kind regards and thanks for your quick replies Nico --=20 Nico Golde - http://ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted. --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGu1K4HYflSXNkfP8RAlKdAJ9rIi3sWUa7S+Tsudjm4AaWQrowfACfZA0Z ew/Ah9Dcsv6Boz3YlblGuko= =nG87 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc--