On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:25:35AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 7/28/06, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:27:00AM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote: > >> > >> "Generic interface for accelerometers (AMS, HDAPS, ...)" on LKML, a > >> few weeks ago, about moving accelerator-based hard disk parking from > >> sysfs polling to the the input infrastructure. One unresolved issue > >> was how to find which input device happens to be the relevant > >> accelerometer. > > > >The current well known methods are: > > > > 1) udev/hotplug. It can create device nodes and symlinks based on > > the > > capabilities and IDs of an input device. > > 1a) HAL. It has all the info from hotplug as well. > > 2) open them all and do the capability checks / IDs yourself. > > 3) (obsolete, deprecated) parse /proc/bus/input/devices, which > > lists all the input devices > > > > 4) sysfs - all capabilities, IDs, etc for input devices exported there as > well. Oh, of course. I don't know how I could forget sysfs here - I had it in mind when I started writing the list ... -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
