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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

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