Dmitry, Is there a reason not to simply add a "state" attribute to a LID input device? thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Zhang Rui wrote: > > Then we update the lid switch status when a Lid notification comes. > > right? > > Yes. > > > Then, IMO, userspace can get the lid status > > via /sys/class/input/inputX/uevent, right? > > No, only through an IOCTL. > > > /sys/class/input/input1/uevent:EV==21 > > That's an bitmap of al EV_EV it supports. > > > /sys/class/input/input1/uevent:SW==1 > > That's an bitmap of al EV_SW it supports. > > > Lid is opened but SW is set, I tried to close/open the lid and found > > that this bit never changes. is there something I misunderstand? can we > > get the lid status in userspace? > > IOCTL(), only. > > Since nobody got a input-utils standard package (or added something to > util-linux) yet to do that (AFAIK anyway), it is a MAJOR annoyance for > shell scripts that want to query EV_SW state... > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
