From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
To: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] EC registers - Adding sysfs interface?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:54:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4739F2FB.9080800@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711131849.56964.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> Alexey,
>
> 2) I'm toying with the idea of re-implementing acer_acpi as a userspace
> application (which also requires EC access for certain functions - I don't
> mind poking /dev/ports for the odd bit of reverse engineering, but for any
> other kind of normal usage access to the EC, I really wouldn't want to be
> poking in /dev/ports and tripping over the EC kernel driver).
What is the benefit of having acer_acpi in userspace, rather than one more
*-laptop in /devices/misc?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-13 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-13 17:24 [RFC] EC registers - Adding sysfs interface? Carlos Corbacho
2007-11-13 18:40 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-13 18:46 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-13 18:49 ` Carlos Corbacho
2007-11-13 18:54 ` Alexey Starikovskiy [this message]
2007-11-13 19:03 ` Carlos Corbacho
2007-11-28 16:28 ` Thomas Renninger
2007-11-28 18:25 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-28 23:12 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-12-07 2:52 ` Len Brown
2007-12-07 8:53 ` Thomas Renninger
2007-12-10 20:36 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-11-14 2:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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