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Subject: [acpi-jp 965] Re: Some power device driver. 
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Hi,

> Now that I've added ioctl registration to /dev/acpi, I hope that you'll 
> consider just using /dev/acpi, and reserving some ioctls to interface to 
> the battery, eg.

Thanks mike, I always appreciate what you have done for this project.
I think this is good enough solution for simple ioctl applications in
terms of reducing number of device control files under /dev/.

BTW, How about daemon programs which need event notification mechanism
such as select/poll/kqueue?  I think we'd better to have dedicated 
control files for this purpose.

Of course your ioctl registration interface would be enough for acpibatt.
