Re: [PATCH] ibm-acpi-0.6 - ACPI driver for IBM ThinkPad laptops

[Borislav Deianov]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:18:08AM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:
> 
> I'm working on a generic hotkey driver, which will move configurable 
> stuff to user space. 
[snip]
> 1. add a new hotkey:
>  echo "0 : _SB.VGA : _SB.VGA.LCD._BCM :0x86 : 0x86" >
> /proc/acpi/ev_config

How would user space know what devices and methods to use? In the
kernel, you can use HIDs where available, or check for specific
objects with acpi_get_handle(). Are you going to expose these to user
space somehow?

Boris
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