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From: John Belmonte <john@neggie.net>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] filling in ACPI method access via sysfs namespace
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:52:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4077535D.6020403@neggie.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1081549317.2694.25.camel@patsy.fc.hp.com>

Alex Williamson wrote:
>    Here's another approach that's far less ugly than the last and is
> much more powerful.  The code is a little over half the size as a
> bonus.  Rather than specifically poking for certain methods and exposing
> them, this patch exposes everything.  The down side is that all reading
> and writing of the files need to use binary acpi data structures.  This
> interface certainly provides "shoot yourself in the foot" potential, but
> the access to the namespace from userspace is hard to beat.  Any
> thoughts on this approach versus the last?  This interface and a simple
> set of libraries to go along with it has a lot of potential.  Thanks,

The limitation of this interface is that it's not able to call an ACPI 
method with some arguments and get the return value, correct?

-John


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-10  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-08 19:49 [PATCH] filling in ACPI method access via sysfs namespace Alex Williamson
2004-04-09 22:21 ` Alex Williamson
2004-04-10  1:52   ` John Belmonte [this message]
2004-04-10  3:12     ` [ACPI] " Alex Williamson
2004-04-10  5:31       ` John Belmonte
2004-04-10 20:42         ` Alex Williamson
2004-04-11  3:20           ` Alex Williamson
2004-04-11 22:29             ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-04-12  3:31               ` Alex Williamson
2004-04-19 15:45                 ` Alex Williamson
2004-05-06 10:02                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-10  5:32       ` Alex Williamson
     [not found] <fa.n5srcao.1k1orra@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.e0sva3e.u5k09i@ifi.uio.no>
2004-04-12  4:13   ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-12  4:32     ` Alex Williamson

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