From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262470AbVG0V2G (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:28:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262435AbVG0VZk (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:25:40 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:63916 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262447AbVG0VX0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:23:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:18:49 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Len Brown , acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 Message-ID: <20050727211849.GC708@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <1122407079.13241.4.camel@toshiba.lenb.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > Len Brown 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. > Unless it was in obsolete-feature-removal file for a year.... changing userspace interface is bad idea in the middle of stable series. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms