Re: [PATCH 4/5] ACPI: WMI: Add sysfs userspace interface

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On Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:53:27 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Now that we're getting a proliferation of WMI drivers (I'm working on a
> Dell one at the moment), it'd be nice to be able to get the module
> autoloading support in. BUS_ID still seems to be limited to 20 bytes,
> though. Any thoughts on the best way to go from here?

Can we abuse uevent and cram all the GUID's into just one MODALIAS line?

Alternatively, maybe just have the directories numbered 1 to X, and have a 
uevent file under each, since we don't care about trying to abuse sysfs to 
let userspace talk to WMI anymore.

-Carlos
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