From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
rjw@rjwysocki.net,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 3.14-rc: /proc/acpi/battery gone?
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:10:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53246D6C.5060704@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLxGvz1Egbg1=Kxfc2DGw8OZUEootr5E=Uh7rW6qTSC8N9+Wg@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/14/2014 05:45 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> It seems /proc/acpi/battery interface is gone, and I don't see any
>>> option to reintroduce it... what is going on?
>>
>> The interface went away in a semi-recent kernel release (3.13 or
>> 3.12), breaking pretty much every battery app. (Admittedly the
>> interface was marked as deprecated for quite some time, but that
>> didn't stop everyone from using it and not caring about the new
>> thing.) I've yet to find a windowmaker dock app that works with the
>> current sysfs API :(
>>
>
> commit 1e2d9cdfb4494fce682b4ae010d86a2766816d36
> Author: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
> Date: Fri Oct 11 09:54:08 2013 +0800
>
> ACPI / Battery: Remove battery's proc directory
>
> The battery's proc directory isn't useded and remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> Looks like this one is the said commit.
> If it breaks userspace we have to revert it IMHO.
>
Yes, we will revert the commit if it really breaks some APPs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-15 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-14 21:14 3.14-rc: /proc/acpi/battery gone? Pavel Machek
2014-03-14 21:20 ` Pavel Machek
2014-03-14 21:29 ` Ilia Mirkin
2014-03-14 21:45 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-03-15 15:10 ` Lan Tianyu [this message]
2014-03-14 22:11 ` Pavel Machek
2014-03-14 22:14 ` Ilia Mirkin
2014-03-15 1:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-03-15 2:17 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2014-03-15 15:29 ` Lan Tianyu
2014-03-15 16:05 ` Pavel Machek
2014-03-15 17:27 ` Lan Tianyu
2014-03-16 11:12 ` Pavel Machek
2014-03-16 3:57 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2014-03-17 17:28 ` Ilia Mirkin
2014-04-20 13:09 ` Pavel Machek
2014-04-21 11:29 ` Lan Tianyu
2014-03-15 14:08 ` Pavel Machek
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