Poll: Does ACPI lid state work on your Linux laptop?

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Jul 19 14:12:39 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:42:30PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:37:51AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > Would something like "use_acpi_lid_status" kernel cmdline option be too ugly? :)
> > At least it would be easy to parse (grep /proc/cmdline) .. 
> > 
> 
> Any comments about this way of doing it?

I don't think introducing two separate codepaths is helpful here. One's 
inevitably going to end up less well tested.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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