Hi! > >> And then we have to maintain both a kernel side and a userspace side. > >> And what do I, poor author of tp_smapi, do if I want to add a > >> non-standard attribute? Tell people to patch and overwrite their > >> disto's batstate binary too? > > > >How often do you plan to do that? > > With tp_smapi, I did it about 10 times over half a year. And there's > probably more to come. I still like /sys approach a bit more, but a word of warning: "it is hard to change kernel<->user interface" is actually a feature. It sucks when you are the one doing the work, but maybe it will mean reusing interfaces where possible. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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
