Re: Generic battery interface

Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28T13:44:10Z

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:25:35AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:27:00AM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> >>
> >> "Generic interface for accelerometers (AMS, HDAPS, ...)" on LKML, a
> >> few weeks ago, about moving accelerator-based hard disk parking from
> >> sysfs polling to the the input infrastructure. One unresolved issue
> >> was how to find which input device happens to be the relevant
> >> accelerometer.
> >
> >The current well known methods are:
> >
> > 1) udev/hotplug. It can create device nodes and symlinks based on
> > the
> > capabilities and IDs of an input device.
> > 1a) HAL. It has all the info from hotplug as well.
> > 2) open them all and do the capability checks / IDs yourself.
> > 3) (obsolete, deprecated) parse /proc/bus/input/devices, which
> > lists all the input devices
> >
>
> 4) sysfs - all capabilities, IDs, etc for input devices exported there as
> well.

Oh, of course. I don't know how I could forget sysfs here - I had it in
mind when I started writing the list ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs