Re: [PATCH 0/5] sonypi driver update

[Stelian Pop]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:24:58PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:44:21 +0100, Stelian Pop <stelian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Over the last few weeks I've collected a few patches in my tree
> > coming from others and it's time to merge them upstream:
> > 
> >        1/5: sonypi: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()
> >        2/5: sonypi: add another HELP button event
> >        3/5: sonypi: use MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR in miscdevice.minor assignment.
> >        4/5: sonypi: fold the contents of sonypi.h into sonypi.c
> >        5/5: sonypi: add fan and temperature status/control
> 
> Any chance that last one could be done via sysfs attributes instead of
> new IOCTLs? This way you can control fan from the command line.

Good suggestion, but I'd rather not mix ioctls and sysfs attrs. In
some future version (development branch ? ahem) I'll switch to sysfs
for all the controls and implement backward compatibility in the
userspace tool.

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <stelian@xxxxxxxxxx>
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