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From: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
To: Ash Milsted <thatistosayiseenem@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1 acpi battery driver -> sysfs interface does not update correctly
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:27:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47249C49.8070609@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e7b9f4b0710280703x44a94ca6p8b33993e01c36b46@mail.gmail.com>

Ash Milsted wrote:
> I wonder how common this problem is. This laptop is quite old (Toshiba
> Satellite 1110), but if this is a common issue I guess it makes sense
I've seen only one bug report with similar issue -- DSDT required 10 false 
_BST executions before returning actual value.
So, I'd say it is rare enough.
> for either HAL or the battery driver to poll in certain cases (e.g.
> poll if we haven't been receiving events/interrupts but we should be
> charging/discharging or, if it ain't common, this could be a HAL
> 'quirk'). As long as users of the uevent interface are aware of this
> possible issue I guess they could be responsible for polling - do you
> think I should let the HAL guys know?
You decide :)

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-28 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 18:14 2.6.24-rc1 acpi battery driver -> sysfs interface does not update correctly Ash Milsted
2007-10-24 18:53 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-24 19:52   ` Ash Milsted
2007-10-24 20:23     ` Ash Milsted
2007-10-24 20:32       ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-24 21:17         ` Ash Milsted
2007-10-24 21:49           ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-24 22:28             ` Ash Milsted
2007-10-24 22:37               ` Ash Milsted
2007-10-25  3:08                 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-25  9:31                   ` Ash Milsted
2007-10-27 16:52                     ` Ash Milsted
2007-10-27 17:22                       ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-28 12:06                         ` Ash Milsted
     [not found]                           ` <3e7b9f4b0710280524u1898296ase70f70c9cd03ced0@mail.gmail.com>
2007-10-28 12:33                             ` [PATCH] ACPI: battery: Support for non-spec name for LiIon technology Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-28 12:40                             ` 2.6.24-rc1 acpi battery driver -> sysfs interface does not update correctly Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-28 12:58                           ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-28 14:03                             ` Ash Milsted
2007-10-28 14:27                               ` Alexey Starikovskiy [this message]

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