Re: a question about lid input device

[Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org>]

dmitry wrote:
 > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:51:04PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
 > > dmitry wrote:
 > >  > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:14:20AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
 ...
 > >  > > i understand that it's not fully general, but for the case of
 > >  > > the lid:  is /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state going away?
 > >  > 
 > >  > Yes, according to feature-removal.txt ACPI procfs interface shoudl have
 > >  > been gone back in 2008.
 > > 
 > > thanks.  i understand that adding sysfs entries for all the bells
 > > and whistles on modern input devices might seem prohibitive.  on
 > > the other hand, there are some basic interfaces that are very
 > > usefully accessed from the shell.  i guess either way the
 > > information is available, but having to rely on a utility package
 > > for intermediate access always introduces new packaging
 > > dependencies, release skew issues, etc, etc.
 > > 
 > 
 > I am not wasting kernel memory to export full state of an arbitrary
 > input device via sysfs just so someone out there might avoid writing or
 > installig a utility. The interface was there for many years and is quite
 > stable, I do not understand what release skew issues you are talking
 > about.

if, for example, the utility package available in a distro lags
behind the kernel.

but please consider my comments above as more of a lament than a
complaint.  i understand your design decision -- it will make
your life easier, at the expense of making mine somewhat more
difficult.  :-)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf@laptop.org