Re: problems about ACPI sysfs convert work

Matthew Garrett
2006-11-21T16:34:43Z

(I seem to be missing the original mail here...)

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 12:18:13PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Hello, lists
> > I’m doing the ACPI sysfs convert work now. And I have some problems when duplicating some procfs interfaces to sysfs.
> > Under driver model (this will be available soon), files under /proc/acpi/xxx(driver)/yyy(device)/ will be duplicated under /sys/device/ as they are properties of individual devices.
> > But I still have some trouble on dealing with the files under /prco/acpi, including “alarm”, “sleep”, “wakeup”, “debug_layer”, “debug_level”, “dsdt”, “fadt”, “event” and “info”.
> > Following is a proposal as well as some problem and I’m not quite sure about the places all these attributes should be located at. I wish to get some advice from you, and any comment is welcome☺.
> >
> > 1. Where should “alarm” be located? Another problem is whether we should put a duration into this file instead of a future time.
> Don't know, never used...

This should presumably just be handled by the clock driver rather than
the ACPI subsystem. There's only a tiny amount of acpi-related code in
the driver, and that's information that we could just export to the
clock instead.

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