From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267544AbUHEFEV (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 01:04:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267551AbUHEFDw (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 01:03:52 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:7808 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267544AbUHEFBT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 01:01:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:36:37 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alex Williamson Cc: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] dev_acpi: device driver for userspace access to ACPI Message-ID: <20040805043636.GA28244@kroah.com> References: <1091552426.4981.103.camel@tdi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1091552426.4981.103.camel@tdi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:00:26AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > Populating the sysfs tree didn't seem to generate as much interest as > I'd hoped and I don't think it kept with the spirit of sysfs very well. I'm sorry if I didn't speak up at the time, but I still think that your sysfs patches were the right way to go. Why do you think they don't keep with the spirit of sysfs? Do you have a pointer to your last patch that exported the acpi table info through sysfs? thanks, greg k-h