Re: simple userspace pm interface

2001-05-08 Thread John Fremlin
"Grover, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > - It's probably easier to put the "event" file in proc, instead of > dev. This is what the acpi interface does, and eliminates the mknod > step. Is this kernel policy? I mean, you could apply the same argument to all device nodes ;-) > -

Re: simple userspace pm interface

2001-05-08 Thread John Fremlin
Grover, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] - It's probably easier to put the event file in proc, instead of dev. This is what the acpi interface does, and eliminates the mknod step. Is this kernel policy? I mean, you could apply the same argument to all device nodes ;-) - perhaps

RE: simple userspace pm interface

2001-05-07 Thread Grover, Andrew
[trimming CC's. Recommend [EMAIL PROTECTED] for followups] As you mentioned, the ACPI driver does something similar, and I think the approach is generally sound (or at least we haven't been able to come up with anything better ;-) I do have the following comments: - It's probably easier to put

RE: simple userspace pm interface

2001-05-07 Thread Grover, Andrew
[trimming CC's. Recommend [EMAIL PROTECTED] for followups] As you mentioned, the ACPI driver does something similar, and I think the approach is generally sound (or at least we haven't been able to come up with anything better ;-) I do have the following comments: - It's probably easier to put