Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer

[Jan Dittmer]

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
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