linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Optional Beeping During Resume From Suspend To Ram.

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Message-ID: <20070705223716.GG3881@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:37:16 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>, nigel@...pend2.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optional Beeping During Resume From Suspend To Ram.

On Thu 2007-07-05 20:43:44, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 July 2007 01:25, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > > > > > > Beep_flags should be removed too if you're sticking with /proc.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Fixed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ta.  But you didn't answer the question - why /proc and not sysfs?
> > > > 
> > > > Do you seriously advocate setting two bits of one variable from /proc,
> > > > and one more bit from /sys?
> > > 
> > > That's partly why I had a separate variable - retaining proc only because it's 
> > > existing functionality, using sysfs for the new code. Remember, too, that 
> > 
> > /proc is not deprecated _that_ much, and notice that this is sysctl,
> > not regular procfs code.
> > 
> > Yes, I see why you did it that way, but I also think you overdisgned
> > it a bit. 
> 
> Hmm, what about adding a second interface to acpi_realmode_flags in sysfs, in
> a separate patch, and scheduling the old one, in /proc, for removal?

Well.. it is sysctl... so we already have separate interface,
sysctl(). Yes, sysctl will probably move to /sys one day, but that is
probably bigger project than just suspend.
								Pavel

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