Re: 2.6.23 and newer kernel and option ACPI_PROC_EVENT.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi,

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:51:11AM +0200, Zdenek Prikryl wrote:
> In 2.6.23 and newer kernel is option ACPI_PROC_EVENT. By default is this 
> option
> disabled (in kernel-2.6.23-0.139.rc3.git10.fc8 is disabled), so file
> /proc/acpi/event will not be created. But acpid and probably other 
> user-space
> daemons depend on this file, so option ACPI_PROC_EVENT should be set to "y".

The kernel help reads:

> A user-space daemon, acpi, typically read /proc/acpi/event
> and handled all ACPI sub-system generated events.
>
> These events are now delivered to user-space via
> either the input layer, or as netlink events.
> 
> This build option enables the old code for legacy
> user-space implementation.  After some time, this will
> be moved under CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS, and then deleted.

I think acpid will have to be ported to this new ABI.

(But I have no idea why we should disable it in current kernels.)

Regards,
-- 
TJ. (Brno, CZ), BaseOS, Red Hat

-- 
fedora-devel-list mailing list
fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux