Re: [PATCH v2] drm/client: Detect when ACPI lid is closed during initialization

[Limonciello, Mario]

> > Also a direct acpi_lid_open() call seems a bit iffy. But I guess if
> > someone needs this to work on non-ACPI system they get to figure out
> > how to abstract it better. acpi_lid_open() does seem to return != 0
> > when ACPI is not supported, so at least it would err on the side
> > of enabling everything.
>
> Thanks. I was going to comment, but you got it first. I think a proper
> implementation should check for SW_LID input device instead of simply
> using acpi_lid_open(). This will handle the issue for other,
> non-ACPI-based laptops.

Can you suggest how this would actually work?  AFAICT the only way to 
discover if input devices support SW_LID would be to iterate all the 
input devices in the kernel and look for whether ->swbit has SW_LID set.

This then turns into a dependency problem of whether any myriad of 
drivers have started to report SW_LID.  It's also a state machine 
problem because other drivers can be unloaded at will.

And then what do you if more than one sets SW_LID?

IOW - a lot of complexity for a non-ACPI system.  Does such a problem 
exist in non-ACPI systems?