Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

[Mikulas Patocka]

> Hi!
>
> > Of late I have been working on a driver for the IBM Hard Drive Active
> > Protection System (HDAPS), which provides a two-axis accelerometer and
> > some other misc. data.  The hardware is found on recent IBM ThinkPad
> > laptops.
> >
> > The following patch adds the driver to 2.6.13-rc6-mm2.  It is
> > self-contained and fairly simple.
>
> Do we really need input interface *and* sysfs interface? Input should be 
> enough.

Hi!

I think he doesn't need to export it at all and he should write code to 
park and disable hard disk instead.
(in userspace it's unsolvable --- i.e. you can't enable hard disk when 
detected stable condition if the daemon is swapped out on that hard disk)

Mikulas
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