Re: a question about lid input device

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> > the lid:  is /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state going away?

> Yes, according to feature-removal.txt ACPI procfs interface shoudl have
> been gone back in 2008.

Note that /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state is not reliable
on a measurable portion of systems.

We suspect that other operating systems do not use it,
and thus when Linux tries to use it, sometimes we get burnt.

thanks,
-Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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