From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:18:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20050727211849.GC708@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <1122407079.13241.4.camel@toshiba.lenb.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Matthew Garrett Cc: Len Brown , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Len Brown wrote: > > > I deleted /proc/acpi/button on purpose, > > did you have a use for those files? > > There are various cases where it's useful to know whether a laptop is > shut or not, and /proc/acpi/button seems to be the only place where that > information is made available at the moment. > Unless it was in obsolete-feature-removal file for a year.... changing userspace interface is bad idea in the middle of stable series. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf