On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:18:20PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > Agreed, the hardware may lie, but the kernel is the arbiter of truth, at > least in this case. The range of ways that lid switches can be broken is large. One machine I've seen tries to read from a GPIO that's off by 16, because Intel's GPIO/GPE numbering is complicated. Another generates an event on lid close and generates a different event on lid open, but there's no handler for the open event and so the state variable never gets updated. The world is full of bad hardware and the kernel can't always be there to shield userspace from reality. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
