From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1 acpi battery driver -> sysfs interface does not update correctly Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:27:21 +0300 Message-ID: <47249C49.8070609@gmail.com> References: <3e7b9f4b0710241114u73ad1d4bl34070b4fd2b18d63@mail.gmail.com> <471FBDF5.7000906@gmail.com> <3e7b9f4b0710241528j403e2ecboc29e03438034349a@mail.gmail.com> <3e7b9f4b0710241537i1d3db590u2220900e30ae0d1b@mail.gmail.com> <472008C5.8030906@gmail.com> <3e7b9f4b0710250231p2e562989s97033ee50d2e5ec2@mail.gmail.com> <3e7b9f4b0710270952r3e7ff889qe628cf9ff0c8361e@mail.gmail.com> <472373E9.3040207@gmail.com> <3e7b9f4b0710280506g18b9ec61h8cadc491877dd533@mail.gmail.com> <4724876C.40608@gmail.com> <3e7b9f4b0710280703x44a94ca6p8b33993e01c36b46@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:47181 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751425AbXJ1O10 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:27:26 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so883459ugc for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:27:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3e7b9f4b0710280703x44a94ca6p8b33993e01c36b46@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Ash Milsted Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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 :)