[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#656675: acpid(8) manpage mentions /proc/acpi/event

[Adam Heath]

On 01/24/2012 09:12 AM, Ted Felix wrote:
> On 1/20/2012 3:39 PM, Adam Heath wrote:
>> The manpage for acpid(8) mentions /proc/acpi/event. That file doesn't
>> exist in 3.2(probably 3.1, maybe others). I'm guessing that the file
>> hasn't actually existed for a large number of kernel revisions.
>>
>> Since debian is going to be shipping a 3.x kernel, please modify the
>> manpage to describe modern kernels
>
> Thanks for the bug report.
>
> The man page explains what happens if the /proc/acpi/events file does
> not exist:
>
> "If the events file does not exist, acpid will attempt to connect to the
> Linux kernel via the input layer and netlink."
>
> So the man page covers both old and modern kernels.
>
> Michael, I recommend closing this.

I'll check again when I get home.