From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karol Kozimor Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving the handling of GPE enabling. Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:18:26 +0100 Message-ID: <20050310171826.GB22626@hell.org.pl> References: <1110318037.3663.19.camel@desktop.cunningham.myip.net.au> <1110331896.12642.16.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <20050309222122.GA32516@elf.ucw.cz> <1110431446.9336.60.camel@d845pe> <1110461434.5918.202.camel@tyrosine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1110461434.5918.202.camel@tyrosine> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Thus wrote Matthew Garrett: > > I suspect that the current sysfs device tree hierarchy is largely > > fiction and that Linux would be better served by taking advantage of the > > hierarchy embodied in the DSDT. > > > > The "ACPI devices" such as power, sleep, lid as well as the battery are > > represented at the root level in the DSDT. > > Are the ACPI HID names exposed to userspace yet? At the moment userspace > tools need to try loading every ACPI module. If the HIDs were exported > via sysfs and the ACPI drivers exported the devices they could bind to, > we could use hotplug to autoload the correct drivers. I fully support that. Ugh, so many things to do, so little time... Best regards, -- Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click