[Pm-utils] pm-utils and pmu hardware.

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Tue May 2 02:51:51 PDT 2006


On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:31:43AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
 
> Why do we need to check if the pmu device works? It's early, and I've
> been up for hours so go easy on me :-)

Well, just open()ing it would probably suffice, but just checking
for the existence of /dev/pmu ("test -c /dev/pmu"), might not, since
there could still be people out there using static /dev.
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