Re: [PATCH v3 00/19] Report power supply from hid-logitech-hidpp

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 09:25 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> 
<snip>
> Well, as Bastien said, the issue is that old user space is buggy, and
> even if we postpone the switch to 4.13, there will always be someone
> who
> did not updated upower and who will complain.
> 
> As soon as I started the development of this series, Bastien upgraded
> upower with the required changes, and usually the development cycle
> of
> the kernel gives plenty of time for users to upgrade their user space
> tools before the kernel hits mainline.
> 
> [...after a little bit of digging...]
> 
> I tried today with a Fedora 25 and the shipped upower that doesn't
> have
> the bits Bastien worked on last March.

Richard should be able to cut a release, UPower hasn't had one since
early last year, so it's time in any case :)

> I couldn't expose the bug as reported here. The reason being what
> Bastien said, there is a "scope" property exported by the kernel
> device
> which is set to "Device" telling upower to ignore the device
> completely
> in this version.

Unless we added code to the obsolete version of UPower, we don't have a
way to tell UPower to not use a particular device as a generic
"power_supply" device.