From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261960AbVGZTzo (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:55:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261985AbVGZTzn (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:55:43 -0400 Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk ([193.201.200.170]:61574 "EHLO chiark.greenend.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261960AbVGZTzk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:55:40 -0400 To: Len Brown Cc: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI buttons in 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 In-Reply-To: <1122407079.13241.4.camel@toshiba.lenb.intel.com> References: <1122407079.13241.4.camel@toshiba.lenb.intel.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:55:37 +0100 Message-Id: From: Matthew Garrett Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@srcf.ucam.org