Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer

Jan Dittmer
2004-09-15T06:53:33Z

Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:45:57AM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
>
>>Tim Hockin wrote:
>>
>>>ACPI events might come out of a kobject "/sys/devices/acpi" with an event
>>>"event" and payload "button/power 00000000 00000001" or whatever the
>>>actual values work out to be.
>>>
>>>What's insane about that? Currently we have a separate /proc/acpi/event
>>>file which spits out "button/power 00000000 00000001".
>>>
>>
>>What's wrong about fixing acpi to have something like
>>/sys/devices/acpi/buttons/power/, that spits out the event?
>>Just curious...
>
>
> You'd still need to spit out a payload with the status. Interesting idea
> for the evolution of acpi, though...

Well, what's the status supposed to mean? Is this something like
buttondown, buttonup, ...? Couldn't this be the 'event'. I mean that it
is an event is kind of selfexplaining if it comes through the event layer.

Jan