Re: inconsistency in /proc/acpi directory structure?

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On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Nico Golde wrote:
> But even checking for an empty directory is not enough since 
> there comes ibm-acpi (maybe others).

As far as ibm-acpi goes, you can do me a BIG favour, and pretend it has
nothing in procfs.

> 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?

[...]

> 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 did reply to you. Hmm... I will resend the reply just in case, I have no
idea why it didn't reach you.

I didn't expand a lot on this email because I replied in detail to you on
the email you didn't receive.  I will resend it to this thread as well.

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