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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2007-07-22 02:27:40 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2007-07-22 02:27:40 -0400
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Pull misc into release branch
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182 182
183What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace
184When: 2.6.21
185Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for
186 the BIOS. The device names are completely arbitrary
187 and have no place being exposed to user-space.
188
189 For those interested in the BIOS ACPI namespace,
190 the BIOS can be extracted and disassembled with acpidump
191 and iasl as documented in the pmtools package here:
192 http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils
193Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
194
195---------------------------
196
197What: ACPI procfs interface 183What: ACPI procfs interface
198When: July 2007 184When: July 2008
199Why: After ACPI sysfs conversion, ACPI attributes will be duplicated 185Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
200 in sysfs and the ACPI procfs interface should be removed. 186 ACPI procfs interface will be removed in July 2008 so that
187 there is enough time for the user space to catch up.
201Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> 188Who: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
202 189
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