lenb@supermicro:~> ls /sys/bus/acpi/drivers ACPI AC Adapter Driver ACPI PCI Root Bridge Driver ACPI Battery Driver ACPI Power Resource Driver ACPI Button Driver ACPI Processor Driver ACPI container driver ACPI Thermal Zone Driver ACPI Embedded Controller Driver hpet ACPI Fan Driver motherboard ACPI PCI Interrupt Link Driver lenb@supermicro:~> Seems with the exception of motherboard and hpet, we have the description confused with the .name. I'll fix this. What is "PNPIDNON" (below) supposed to mean? thanks, -Len supermicro:~ # ls /sys/bus/acpi/devices ACPI_CPU:00 ACPI_THM:00 PNP0800:00 PNP0C0F:03 PNPIDNON:04 PNPIDNON:0e ACPI_CPU:01 INT0800:00 PNP0A03:00 PNP0C0F:04 PNPIDNON:05 PNPIDNON:0f ACPI_CPU:02 PNP0000:00 PNP0A05:00 PNP0C0F:05 PNPIDNON:06 PNPIDNON:10 ACPI_CPU:03 PNP0100:00 PNP0B00:00 PNP0C0F:06 PNPIDNON:07 PNPIDNON:11 ACPI_CPU:04 PNP0200:00 PNP0C02:00 PNP0C0F:07 PNPIDNON:08 PNPIDNON:12 ACPI_CPU:05 PNP0303:00 PNP0C04:00 PNP0F13:00 PNPIDNON:09 PNPIDNON:13 ACPI_CPU:06 PNP0401:00 PNP0C0C:00 PNPIDNON:00 PNPIDNON:0a PNPIDNON:14 ACPI_CPU:07 PNP0501:00 PNP0C0F:00 PNPIDNON:01 PNPIDNON:0b PNPIDNON:15 ACPI_FPB:00 PNP0501:01 PNP0C0F:01 PNPIDNON:02 PNPIDNON:0c ACPI_SYS:00 PNP0700:00 PNP0C0F:02 PNPIDNON:03 PNPIDNON:0d supermicro:~# ls /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNPIDNON* PNPIDNON:00: path PNP0A03:00 power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:01: path PNPIDNON:02 PNPIDNON:07 power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:02: path PNPIDNON:03 PNPIDNON:06 power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:03: path PNPIDNON:04 PNPIDNON:05 power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:04: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:05: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:06: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:07: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:08: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:09: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:0a: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:0b: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:0c: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:0d: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:0e: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:0f: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:10: INT0800:00 PNP0200:00 PNP0C02:00 PNP0C0F:02 PNP0C0F:06 uevent path PNP0800:00 PNP0C04:00 PNP0C0F:03 PNP0C0F:07 PNP0000:00 PNP0A05:00 PNP0C0F:00 PNP0C0F:04 power PNP0100:00 PNP0B00:00 PNP0C0F:01 PNP0C0F:05 subsystem PNPIDNON:11: path PNPIDNON:12 power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:12: path PNPIDNON:13 PNPIDNON:14 power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:13: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:14: path power subsystem uevent PNPIDNON:15: path power subsystem uevent - 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