Re: Poll: Does ACPI lid state work on your Linux laptop?

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:11:23AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07/13/2011 07:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:35 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 16:57 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>
> >>> Maybe it it is an idea to build a whitelist for machines which do
> >>> have working ACPI lid support? I realize maintaining such a list is
> >>> a pain, but this way people who care and are lucky enough to have actually
> >>> working hardware can at least use this ?
> >>
> >> It's an idea, but not one I'd do.  Either a whitelist or a blacklist
> >> would be oppressively large.
> >
> > I suppose a whitelist has the advantage that it can't hurt anything
> > compared to the current state, and no matter how short it is, it
> > benefits *some* people.
> 
> Yeah, that is my main reason for suggesting this, thanks for wording it
> so eloquently for me :) Note I'm not volunteering to do the work
> -ENOTIME.
> 

Would something like "use_acpi_lid_status" kernel cmdline option be too ugly? :)
At least it would be easy to parse (grep /proc/cmdline) .. 

-- Pasi

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