Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2

[Matthew Garrett]

Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I deleted /proc/acpi/button on purpose,
> did you have a use for those files?

There are various cases where it's useful to know whether a laptop is
shut or not, and /proc/acpi/button seems to be the only place where that
information is made available at the moment.

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