Thomas Renninger wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 19:03 +0000, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
Alexey,
How about character /dev/ec0?
Yes, that would be fine.
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 18:54:51 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
What is the benefit of having acer_acpi in userspace, rather than one more
*-laptop in /devices/misc?
A debate of "would it be easier for me to maintain an in kernel driver (if/
when I can get it upstream) or a userspace application". At the moment, the
idea of a full blown userspace application is just something I'm toying with
in my head whilst working on WMI userspace.
I very much like the idea of a general EC debug/devel interface to
userspace.
It should be a separate CONFIG, marked "DEBUG", "EXPERIMENTAL" or
whatever and be per default off.
It is stupid that everybody who wants to debug a bit on EC registers
needs to duplicate the IBM EC implementation, this should IMO be moved
where it belongs to:
drivers/acpi/ec.c
The question is whether Len will accept/like it, Len?
Having it as /dev/ec0 should not introduce too many problems...
Also, it has much smaller impact than /dev/mem or /dev/ioport...
Regards,
Alex.
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