On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:28:05PM +0530, dhanya wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:16:06AM +0530, dhanya wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I need to get PCI slot info through ACPI using _SUN object. So I want to > >> know how to retrieve the slot info from _SUN object. Can you tell me how > to > > >access the _SUN object? > >> > >> I have couple of questions related to that: > > >I already answered this yesterday, what was wrong with that response? > > Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately > the first reply mail sent by you got deleted. > > I want to retrieve the PCI slot information from ACPI _SUN > object from an application program. Why would a userspace program want this information? You have access to all ACPI tables if you wish to parse it yourself in /proc/acpi, right? > I saw the driver files in pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c and acpiphp.h > but, I could not access these functions/structures from an user space > application program. > > Can the _SUN object be accessible from application programs "or" is it > accessible only from Kernel Space (Driver programs)? > > So, Can you please give more details on how to access the _SUN object? Can you explain why you want this information? What can a userspace program do with this object? thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
