Hi, I wrote some shared library to get ACPI values for user space acpi tools and came to a problem. I check if an ACPI feature exists by checking for its directory, e.g. /proc/acpi/fan. The problem with this is, that this gets created when the specific module is loaded, so if you load the module but your system does not support it properly you get an empty directory. But even checking for an empty directory is not enough since there comes ibm-acpi (maybe others). With working fan and usage of ibm-acpi you also get an empty /proc/acpi/fan dir because you have /proc/acpi/ibm/fan where you can then find the relevant files. This sucks, I mean I can implement a workaround for this, but if asus-acpi would do the same and maybe others would exists I have to check alot of directories. So why not using the existing directory structure? I am not sure if this is a bug in ibm-acpi or an inconsistency in the kernel since to me it is not obvious to just create the directory in module modprobing, why not doing it when dumping the first data to a file? Why is ibm-acpi not using the existing directory structure (also wrote to the ibm-acpi guys but with no answer so far, so I try to get answers here)? Do I miss anything? I hope this is the right list for my questions, please point me to the right direction if not. Kind regards Nico P.S Please Cc me, I am not subscribed. -- Nico Golde - http://ngolde.de - nion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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