On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, haad wrote:
I think it should be avoided at all costs. With proplists, you give up
type
safety
and you create a lot of overhead. This is acceptable for kernel-user
interfaces
in some cases but not within the kernel.
So would it be appropriate for me to expose sysmon_envsys's "global mutex"
and its device list in order for acpi_apm to scan for battery sensors and
A/C adapters?
This is wrong and should be avoided IMHO.
Well, as it turns out, both the global mutex and the device list are
already exposed, so it is a rather trivial task for acpi_apm.c to scan
the device list.
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