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

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Date:	Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:02:10 +0200
From:	Ismail Dönmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	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 Saturday 10 February 2007 18:39:27 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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.

Must be because there is no unified way to read this info ;) Userspace is 
honestly not guilty here.

Regards,
ismail

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