[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#440870: acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: No such file or directory

[Mateusz Jasinski]

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 16:55:02 Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:24:44PM +0200, Mateusz Jasinski wrote:
> > I'm running Debian sid and acpid-1.0.6-14 package  is still affected with
> > this bug.
> > The simple resolution of this problem is to compile the kernel with:
> > 	Deprecated /proc/acpi/event support.
>
> Well there were two bugs. The original #440870 had a different reason,
> namely hal not being stopped. There is still an open bug report about the
> deprecated /proc/acpi/event file.
>
> > Since this is a deprecated kernel feature and the new one is power /sys
> > interface it's clear that acpid should drop the old configuration
> > interface through /proc/acpi/event and change it to the new /sys.
>
> I don't think so. Some acpi information is available under /sys, right, but
> the event notification is not AFAIK but uses netlink now. Thus it needs
> some significant rewriting and not just a changed file name.
>
> Michael

I'm not a acpi developer but I'm aware of the fact that dropping 
/proc/acpi/event configuration by acpid (and using netlink) needs some serious 
rewrites in the code base. I think I've posted a simple resolution what to do 
to not have the problem with reading proc/acpi/event by acpid douring 
configuration / further usage (since the kernel did not include this file due 
to the fact of not enabling it in the config file). 

Mateusz