Re: [PATCH linux-acpi] Correct wakeup set error and append a newcolumn PCI ID

[Yi Yang]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 17:09 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 2008-01-02 10:03:59, Yi Yang wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 00:20 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > > /proc/acpi/wakeup is also case-sensitive, case-insensitive is better.
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > A user uses device bus id like 'C093' to enable or disable wakeup of the
> > device, for example
> > 
> > echo "C093" > /proc/acpi/wakeup
> > 
> > but i think "c093" should also be ok. i.e.
> 
> Why do you think so? Unix is generally case-sensitive. I see ascii
> text in .../wakeup. Maybe some bios vendor is crazy enough to have
> wakeup devices called 'wake', 'Wake', 'wAke', 'waKe', 'wakE'?
Of course, when you cat/proc/acpi/wakeup, you get "wake", but when you
want to enable or disable wakeup of the device "wake", you can

echo "wAke" > /proc/acpi/wakeup

or

echo "wake" > /proc/acpi/wakeup

Don't you think it is reasonable? This is just for user's convenience.

> 
> > > Maybe this file should be left for compatibility and we should present
> > > something reasonable in /sys? Can't you already get PCI ID from sysfs
> > > node?
> > PCI ID can be gotten from sysfs, but it is a unique identifier for a
> > device, a user can get device name from /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids in any
> > dstribution by PCI ID, he/she is unnecessary to use bus number to get
> > device name, bus number is platform-specific, but PCI ID is
> > platform-independent.
> 
> If the same info can be gotten from 'sysfs node' field, new field
> should not be added.
> 
> 

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