Ângelo, On Saturday 10 November 2007 01:44:48 Ângelo Miguel Arrifano wrote: > If the laptop is turned off and a hot button is pressed, the > computer turns on and boots. This module gets a notification from > ACPI which button was pressed. Then the driver writes to the proc > fs which button was pressed allowing userspace apps to read that > files and behave accordingly. Proc files are also writable.
Please use sysfs, not proc (even if you aren't considering submitting this upstream) - /proc/acpi is deprecated and going away (slowly but surely). -Carlos -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html