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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	len.brown@intel.com
Subject: Re: patch [0/2]: acpi: add generic removable drive bay support
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 16:33:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060908203310.GM28592@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060908132123.16137ea3.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:21:23PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
 > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:58:42 +0100
 > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:13:05PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
 > > 
 > > Firstly, thanks for this - I wrote some related code a while ago. A 
 > > couple of questions...
 > > 
 > > > can then be used by udev to unmount or rescan depending on the event.  It will
 > > > create a proc entry under /proc/acpi/bay for "eject" and for "status".  Writing 
 > > 
 > > Do we really want it under /proc? It would seem to make more sense for 
 > > it to be under /sys.
 > 
 > I agree - this is under proc because this is an acpi driver, and the acpi
 > subsystem is still using the /proc fs for driver/user space interface. I
 > thought I would just conform to their standard.

It's my understanding from talking with Len that he'd like to see /proc/acpi/
go away over time, so adding more to it seems to be at odds with that goal.
 
	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-08 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-07 23:13 patch [0/2]: acpi: add generic removable drive bay support Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-08  1:34 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-09-08 17:48   ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-08 19:59   ` Matthew Garrett
2006-09-08 19:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-09-08 20:21   ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-08 20:33     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-10-14  5:13       ` Len Brown
2006-09-08 20:42     ` Matthew Garrett
2006-09-09 15:15 ` Alan Cox

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