Disable CONFIG_ACPI_SYSFS_POWER?

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Mon Feb 18 16:54:01 UTC 2008


On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:48:20AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > For Fedora 9 maybe it should be the sysfs interface if it works.
>  > i don't really see a harm in having both.
> 
> I imagine that eventually someone upstream will make the decision a no-brainer
> by removing the proc stuff.   Not shipping it does mean that nothing new will
> start depending on it. (Unlikely I know, but still...)
> 

This is true. The patch I submitted to hal (I think it's in git, but not
sure it has made it into a release or Fedora) preferentially selects
sysfs over procfs, so hopefully that will at least encourage people to
fix the shortcomings, if any, in the sysfs interfaces. :/

cheers, Kyle




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