From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Panasonic Let's Note laptop extras driver v0.94 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:33:12 +0100 Message-ID: <20080704123312.GA11829@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20080702090044.GB12272@prithivi.gnumonks.org> <20080704034419.GG4381@prithivi.gnumonks.org> <20080704091031.GA8905@srcf.ucam.org> <20080704120754.GC7435@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20080704121116.GA11510@srcf.ucam.org> <20080704122247.GF7435@khazad-dum.debian.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:46557 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753041AbYGDMdR (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:33:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080704122247.GF7435@khazad-dum.debian.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Harald Welte , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Hiroshi Miura On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 09:22:47AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > hal has bound to input devices for years. It won't run code directly, > > since that's a policy decision, but lshal -m should show events come > > from input devices. > > Is there an easy way to duplicate what acpid does (i.e. give HAL some config > file that tells it to run an extrenal script when it gets a certain event)? > If there is not, it is no wonder people don't want to go away from acpid and > we have to keep proc_generate_event around... Right, that's why I'm not encouraging its removal from any existing drivers at the moment. I was under the impression that there was an acpid that could listen for input devices somewhere, but I'm having trouble finding that now. Hm. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org