Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer

Karol Kozimor
2004-09-15T08:16:47Z

On Wednesday 15 of September 2004 08:45, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> What's wrong about fixing acpi to have something like
> /sys/devices/acpi/buttons/power/, that spits out the event?
> Just curious...

Well, the fact that you'd have to somehow:
1) pass the list of all the drivers that register notify handlers to the
userspace
2) make userspace daemons hold ~10 sysfs nodes open

Not that it's not feasible, but that's simply ugly IMHO.
Best regards,

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Karol Kozimor
kkozimor@aurox.org