From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carlos Corbacho Subject: Re: [RFC] EC registers - Adding sysfs interface? Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:03:02 +0000 Message-ID: <200711131903.03018.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> References: <200711131724.31868.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> <200711131849.56964.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> <4739F2FB.9080800@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from slackadelic.com ([65.196.224.53]:56982 "EHLO mail.slackadelic.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762471AbXKMTDd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:03:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4739F2FB.9080800@suse.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey Starikovskiy Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Alexey, > How about character /dev/ec0? Yes, that would be fine. On Tuesday 13 November 2007 18:54:51 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > What is the benefit of having acer_acpi in userspace, rather than one more > *-laptop in /devices/misc? A debate of "would it be easier for me to maintain an in kernel driver (if/ when I can get it upstream) or a userspace application". At the moment, the idea of a full blown userspace application is just something I'm toying with in my head whilst working on WMI userspace. -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D