On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:45:19PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> While useful to a techie, it is hard to imagine that these will
> become useful to a generic Linux GUI some day that is used by
> regular people.

I think it makes sense to tie them to uevents on the appropriate generic 
devices. Even if most hardware doesn't generate them, the ability to pop 
up a notification telling the user that the firmware thinks their system 
is too hot is useful.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

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