From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Belay Subject: Re: [RFC] Add lspnp support for sysfs Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:47:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20060120024731.GA27435@neo.rr.com> References: <200601131051.36906.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200601191650.59642.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from HELIOUS.MIT.EDU ([18.248.3.87]:36808 "EHLO neo.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161167AbWATCma (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:42:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601191650.59642.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Matthieu Castet , Li Shaohua On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:50:59PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Friday 13 January 2006 10:51, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > Add lspnp support for sysfs. This makes it work with generic PNP > > (including PNPACPI, PNPBIOS, ISAPNP) instead of just with PNPBIOS. > > I'm particularly interested in ia64, which never has PNPBIOS, but > > may have PNPACPI. > > Any more feedback on this? I'd like to see lspnp work again > on modern systems, because it's so much easier to tell a user > to run lspnp than it is to tell him how to grub around in > /sys/bus/pnp/devices. Personally, I think this would be really useful, and I agree asking users to poke around sysfs can be difficult. I'd like to see it as a seperate utility from the original lspnp included in pcmcia-cs (which should actually be called "lspnpbios") as it can be handy for a different sort of testing. Thanks, Adam