From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hinds Subject: Re: [RFC] Add lspnp support for sysfs Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:59:11 -0800 Message-ID: <20060201055911.GA13540@sonic.net> References: <200601131051.36906.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200601311007.07379.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from b.mail.sonic.net ([64.142.19.5]:54492 "EHLO b.mail.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030408AbWBAGAx (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 01:00:53 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601311007.07379.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 , Adam Belay , Matthieu Castet , Li Shaohua On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:07:07AM -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. > > Ping. I think we have two votes in favor of this, at least in > concept (mine and Adam's). We had a couple tangential questions. > Nobody seemed really opposed. > > What can I do to either advance this or come to the conclusion > that it's not worth the effort? David, are you the pcmcia-cs > maintainer? Are you interested in this at all? I think it would be good for lspnp to live somewhere other than pcmcia-cs. It really doesn't belong there, and now that pcmcia-cs is essentially deprecated, it makes even less sense. -- Dave