From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:02:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 81-174-11-161.f5.ngi.it ([81.174.11.161]:11959 "EHLO mail.enneenne.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20037530AbXA3ACI (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:02:08 +0000 Received: from zaigor.enneenne.com ([192.168.32.1]) by mail.enneenne.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBgOQ-00011i-Dj; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:58:37 +0100 Received: from giometti by zaigor.enneenne.com with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HBgOs-0002Ll-DP; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:59:02 +0100 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:59:02 +0100 From: Rodolfo Giometti To: Richard Purdie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20070129235902.GB8882@enneenne.com> References: <20070129230755.GA8705@enneenne.com> <1170114826.5833.139.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1170114826.5833.139.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: GNU/Linux Device Drivers, Embedded Systems and Courses X-PGP-Key: gpg --keyserver keyserver.linux.it --recv-keys D25A5633 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.32.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: giometti@enneenne.com Subject: Re: Advice on APM-EMU reunion X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.enneenne.com) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13854 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: giometti@enneenne.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:53:46PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > I'm not sure this is a good idea. As you're creating a new interface, > why not create something new/improved without the problems that > confining yourself to APM emulation brings? Because several applications (and expecially in embedded systems) use that interface. However adding a sysfs support I try to define a new (and most versatile) interface. Ciao, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solutions e-mail: giometti@enneenne.com Linux Device Driver giometti@gnudd.com Embedded Systems giometti@linux.it UNIX programming phone: +39 349 2432127