[Sorry, cut away too much in original reply...] On 5/22/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > Notification to where? The driver? Userspace? Does delay in status > > reading of ~0.5 sec matter? You are concerned with the load on the EC > > To the driver, and yes it matters. > > > caused by constant polling but are you OK with apllications readig > > sysfs attributes constantly (rfkill attributs are exported 0644 or > > 0444 so anyone could read them)? Do you want the driver to do > > No, I am not. And I am so going to rate-limit the entire thinkpad-acpi > sysfs interface eventually, you can count on it. And rfkill isn't the > reason it will be done, either. Userspace braindamage is. >
So how are you going to implement rate limiting and still give user guarantee that he will see the most current hardware state? -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
