Re: ACPI+Userspace

Jeremy Moles
2005-06-19T18:05:30Z

Well, spent some time Friday night and went ahead and did it. README
included, along with some stuff in the source which may/may not be
correct. :/ In particular, the sscanf may be hackish... I do mostly C++
and python code, so I'm not that good C string stuff. All comments are
welcome.

P.S. The Makefile has "make in" and "make out" targets. Any OS that lets
you type "make out" at a commandline--and then do something
interesting--is just fine by me. :)

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 19:37 -0400, Jeremy Moles wrote:
> Hello all--quick question.
>
> As bad as it may seem, I was wondering if it is possible to generate
> ACPI events in userspace? That is: propogate any arbitrary "string" up
> through the ACPI subsystem, eventually getting dumped
> to /proc/acpi/event which, in our case, is being watched and acted on by
> the userspace util ACPID.
>
> The obvious answer is: "Call /etc/acpi/hander with your string!"--which
> is always an option--but I'd like to know if it's possible simply to use
> for testing/debugging. I could write a driver supporting ioctls to pass
> stuff via acpi_bus_generate_event (I think?), but that's wayyy too much
> work for what I'm wanting this for. I'm sure there are reasons this
> isn't a good idea, and I'd be glad to hear those too (to increase my
> understanding of ACPI!).
>
> Anyway--thanks ahead of time. Weee.
>
>
>
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