Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:52:29 -0400 | From | John Belmonte <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] filling in ACPI method access via sysfs namespace |
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Alex Williamson wrote: > Here's another approach that's far less ugly than the last and is > much more powerful. The code is a little over half the size as a > bonus. Rather than specifically poking for certain methods and exposing > them, this patch exposes everything. The down side is that all reading > and writing of the files need to use binary acpi data structures. This > interface certainly provides "shoot yourself in the foot" potential, but > the access to the namespace from userspace is hard to beat. Any > thoughts on this approach versus the last? This interface and a simple > set of libraries to go along with it has a lot of potential. Thanks,
The limitation of this interface is that it's not able to call an ACPI method with some arguments and get the return value, correct?
-John
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