Re: Many daemons

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Is it reasonable to cook up a single outlet to userspace for device
> state events like power states, attach, detach, etc.?

Not rally. 

You probably don't realize just how much the acpid thing does: it parses
the ACPI AML language etc - all quite complex, and all something that I do
not want to do in the kernel due to that complexity.

Maybe there should be some more generic interfaces (ie a generic interface
to user mode to inform people about suspend/resume), but I do not think
there should be complete unification..

		Linus