linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.21

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Message-ID: <20070210163927.GA489@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:39:27 -0200
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.21

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> Hmmf looks like a userspace bug, but it certainly did work before ACPI update.

Well, I don't know if this is the case here, but after reading the userland
code that people use on most applets to read /proc/acpi/ibm, I was upset and
disgusted for days.

Some userland code *deserves* to be broken with extreme prejudice.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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