Re: [RFC] dev_acpi: device driver for userspace access to ACPI

From: Greg KH (greg_at_kroah.com)
Date: 08/05/04

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To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>

    On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:00:26AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
    >
    > Populating the sysfs tree didn't seem to generate as much interest as
    > I'd hoped and I don't think it kept with the spirit of sysfs very well.

    I'm sorry if I didn't speak up at the time, but I still think that your
    sysfs patches were the right way to go. Why do you think they don't
    keep with the spirit of sysfs? Do you have a pointer to your last
    patch that exported the acpi table info through sysfs?

    thanks,

    greg k-h
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