Re: ACPI+Userspace

[Jeremy Moles <jeremy-9vekgGPT+OA7YuNMryXyOw@public.gmane.org>]

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Here's the package.

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 14:05 -0400, Jeremy Moles wrote:
> 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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