From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:18:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050727211849.GC708@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DxVWb-0002Sx-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Hi!
> Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > I deleted /proc/acpi/button on purpose,
> > did you have a use for those files?
>
> There are various cases where it's useful to know whether a laptop is
> shut or not, and /proc/acpi/button seems to be the only place where that
> information is made available at the moment.
>
Unless it was in obsolete-feature-removal file for a year.... changing userspace
interface is bad idea in the middle of stable series.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-27 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-22 11:25 ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 Cameron Harris
2005-07-26 19:44 ` Len Brown
2005-07-26 19:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-07-27 21:18 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-07-26 20:03 ` [ACPI] " Pavel Troller
2005-07-27 23:09 ` Andrew Morton
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2005-07-27 20:49 [ACPI] " Brown, Len
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