Re: Remove last acpi procfs dirs after being marked deprecated for a decade

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 7:46:23 PM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:07 PM Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2020, 17:49:09 CEST schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 5:33 PM Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> wrote:
> > > > Kernel development should not be hindered anymore by this absolutely
> > > > outdated stuff.
> > >
> > > Well, this is a bit vague.
> > >
> > > I'm not against making this change, but why do it now?  Is there
> > > anything in particular that cannot be done without it?
> >
> > Because of the deprecated message being shown on laptops booting with
> > the option enabled. I got a bugreport about it recently.
> >
> > I could not please check_patch to properly include this commit id
> > (recon the double quotes in the title):
> >
> > e63f6e28dda6de3de2392ddca321e211fd860925
> > Date:   Mon Jul 7 01:13:46 2014 +0200
> >
> >     Revert "ACPI / AC: Remove AC's proc directory."
> >
> >     Revert commit ab0fd674d6ce (ACPI / AC: Remove AC's proc directory.),
> >     because some old tools (e.g. kpowersave from kde 3.5.10) are still
> >     using /proc/acpi/ac_adapter.
> >
> >     Fixes: ab0fd674d6ce (ACPI / AC: Remove AC's proc directory.)
> >
> >
> > kpowersave was written by myself and I can say for sure, that this stuff
> > is more than outdated.
> 
> Fair enough, but I'd rather stage it for 5.9 to give it a full cycle
> of baking in linux-next.

And so applied now as 5.9 material, thanks!