From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI procfs functions in sysfs Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:15:57 -0800 Message-ID: <200701250515.57979.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <1168083306.5619.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200701242128.14047.lenb@kernel.org> <20070125120813.GD23343@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.204]:43853 "HELO smtp105.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965320AbXAYNQA (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:16:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070125120813.GD23343@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org Cc: Pavel Machek , Len Brown , Matthew Garrett , "linux-acpi@vger" , linux-pm@osdl.org On Thursday 25 January 2007 4:08 am, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Wed 2007-01-24 21:28:13, Len Brown wrote: > > On Monday 08 January 2007 08:13, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > > This patch set is against acpi-test sysfs branch which already converts > > > > ACPI to follow driver model. Now the ACPI procfs functions are > > > > duplicated in sysfs step by step. And I want the ACPI interface in sysfs > > > > works exactly the same way as in procfs. > > > > > > No, you can't port same broken interface into sysfs. Some /proc > > > interfaces are horrible, and we do not want to create _exactly same_ > > > horrible interfaces in /sys. > > > > Please be specific. > > /proc/acpi/alarm is horrible mess, as was detailed in another email ditto /proc/acpi/wakeup, and all those empty /proc/acpi directories