[patch] add processor and fan support back into HAL.

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 19:52 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>Another patch. This one adds back processor and fan support into acpi.c
>- the last of the trivial devices that can be read from with HAL
>from /proc/acpi.

I've committed this but I changed system.processor to processor. At some
point we want to rework this when cpu hotplugging and such interfaces
land in the kernel properly. The interface we expose shouldn't change
though.

>I guess the next logical step is to tackle video adaptors and the holy
>grail SetLCDBrightness()

I actually think we should wait with that - there's some good stuff
going on in the kernel community to merge fbdev, drm and fix up a lot of
stuff (including exposing cards, heads and monitors in sysfs (with
hotplug events for monitor connect/disconnect)) and my guess is that
these new drivers will expose this kind of functionality.

Cheers,
David

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