Ideas for spec for PMU/ACPI, Was: Patch to hal-spec : 1/6-pmu-acpi

Richard Hughes ee21rh at surrey.ac.uk
Mon Jan 17 11:30:36 PST 2005


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:18:36 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> I'd like that too :-). Guideline should probably be
> 
>  1. Reading sysfs, procfs is OK from inside hald

Sure, because nothing can block

>  2. Opening device files is not OK from inside hald

Okay.

>  3. Specialized device polling (like ink-level or battery-level from
>     wireless mice) should be done as an addon

Okay.

> 
> What about that?

Shouldn't this (and addons, hint hint) now be documented in
hal-spec.xml.in?

Can you tell I now work for a UK defence company?... 
If it moves, document it. Lol.

> 
> David

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