From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: battery: add power_{now, avg} properties to power_class Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:24:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20090113235739.10548.20626.stgit@thinkpad> <4970E0B6.5070306@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from vms173007pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.7]:47642 "EHLO vms173007pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762828AbZCQGYz (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:24:55 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([96.237.168.40]) by vms173007.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KGN00KZ20G6C6V4@vms173007.mailsrvcs.net> for Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:24:07 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <4970E0B6.5070306@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey Starikovskiy Cc: Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > 2.6.30? > or 2.6.31? Although we've had this patch in the test tree for a bit, I don't think that any amount of aging in -next will help us here. Is it possible to put the add the new attribute immediately, get buy-in from the user-space guys, and then remove the old attribute in a subsequent patch? thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center