From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262656AbVG2Qfv (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:35:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262659AbVG2Qdq (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:33:46 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43750 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262653AbVG2QdJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:33:09 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:35:43 -0400 Message-ID: <42EA5ADF.9000202@tmr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: prgy-npn1.prodigy.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Brown, Len wrote: > I agree that the value of _LID can be usefult to user-space > and I'll be sure it is restored as a property of the lid device > under sysfs -- available as a simple file read like it > was under /proc. You're missing the point, removing the /proc feature breaks existing code. You can add new features in /sys as you like, but when you remove existing featires you break system for no benefit.