Re: [PATCH, RFC] HP WMI hotkey driver, RFKill query?

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:25:10PM +0000, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2008 18:27:33 Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> > On Monday 14 January 2008 17:41:07 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:58:02AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > There is no sysfs device to attach the input device to, by any chance?
> > >
> > > Not as far as I can tell, but I may be misinterpreting this. Carlos?
> 
> What would be better - to have WMI itself as the parent device, or should I 
> add something like this to WMI:
> 
> wmi_get_dev(const char *guid, struct device *dev)
> 
> to return the virtual device associated with a GUID, and then allow that to be 
> used as the parent? (trade off is that this driver would then become 
> dependent on the WMI sysfs patch going in as well, rather than just on the 
> in-kernel WMI support).
> 

If there is a [planned] WMI sysfs device then I think input device should
use it to form proper sysfs hierarchy. What are the roadblocks for getting
WMI sysfs in?

-- 
Dmitry

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