> > What is the benefit of splitting the flow of information so? > > It's split already. You get some from input (power and sleep keys on > keyboards, sound volume keys and display brightness on some notebooks), > some from ACPI events (power keys on notebooks and desktop cases, sound > volume, display brightness on other notebooks), some from /proc/acpi/* > (battery status, fan status), some from APM, from platform specific > devices, from hotplug, from userspace daemons (UPS status). > > The question is how to unify it.
When I wrote power.c I thought there was a common power management interface. I found out I was wrong. I though the new driver model supplied a common method for power management for all platforms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
