Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:34:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI programming under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200210021034.g92AYnvv066077@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20021002081710.GA842@laptop.6bone.nl>
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Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> wrote: > ACPI developers, there is alot more information available in the kernel about > ACPI that we don't export to userland yet. > Do you think we should do that using more sysctl's or should we implement > some ioctl's on /dev/acpi to retrieve the information? I'm not an ACPI developer, but I really like the sysctl interface, because it enables you to retrieve information from within scripts easily. For ioctls you would have to write a separate tool to be able to access it. Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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