[RFC] Add lspnp support for sysfs

[David Hinds]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:07:07AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Friday 13 January 2006 10:51, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > Add lspnp support for sysfs.  This makes it work with generic PNP
> > (including PNPACPI, PNPBIOS, ISAPNP) instead of just with PNPBIOS.
> > I'm particularly interested in ia64, which never has PNPBIOS, but
> > may have PNPACPI.
> 
> Ping.  I think we have two votes in favor of this, at least in
> concept (mine and Adam's).  We had a couple tangential questions.
> Nobody seemed really opposed.
> 
> What can I do to either advance this or come to the conclusion
> that it's not worth the effort?  David, are you the pcmcia-cs
> maintainer?  Are you interested in this at all?

I think it would be good for lspnp to live somewhere other than
pcmcia-cs.  It really doesn't belong there, and now that pcmcia-cs is
essentially deprecated, it makes even less sense.

-- Dave