From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Linux Input Devices <linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:39:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502182139.24520.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050218201429.GA1403@elf.ucw.cz>
Am Freitag, 18. Februar 2005 21:14 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> Hi!
>
> > > > Yes, there are. They can probably stay... Or we can get "battery low"
> > > > key.
> > >
> > > We even have an event class for that, EV_PWR in the input subsystem.
> >
> > Over that route we'd arrive at a situation where power management
> > without the input layer is impossible. Think about embedded stuff I wonder
> > whether this is viable.
>
> I'd say it is: you need some support to get it into userspace. And I'd
> certianly prefer input infrastructure over ACPI infrastructure...
If it could replace ACPI (or some abstraction thereof), maybe.
But power management needs communication in both ways
(like setting warn levels and transfers complex things, like
queries for battery power which cannot easily be abstracted as events)
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-18 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-13 0:47 Adrian Bunk
2005-02-14 18:04 ` James Simmons
2005-02-14 19:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-18 12:22 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-18 13:10 ` Richard Purdie
2005-02-18 13:26 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-18 13:36 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-02-18 16:01 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-18 17:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-18 17:05 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-02-18 17:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-18 21:32 ` James Simmons
2005-02-18 20:14 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-18 20:39 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2005-02-18 18:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-18 18:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-18 19:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-18 20:05 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-18 20:24 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-18 20:40 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-18 20:59 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-18 21:23 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-02-18 21:34 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-18 22:00 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-02-18 23:34 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-18 23:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-02-19 0:13 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-19 1:16 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-02-18 21:38 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-18 23:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-19 2:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-19 6:28 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-02-19 6:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-19 9:10 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-02-21 18:11 ` James Simmons
2005-02-21 18:34 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-02-21 21:37 ` James Simmons
2005-02-21 22:50 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-02-21 22:52 ` James Simmons
2005-02-21 22:57 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-02-21 22:54 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-02-19 20:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-19 20:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-21 18:19 ` James Simmons
2005-02-18 14:02 ` Richard Purdie
2005-02-18 14:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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