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From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
To: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:34:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716053432.GA20102@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184231897.2380.2.camel@work>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:18:17AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:32 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> > >> [*] Does someone have an alternative for
> > >> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/{state,info}?
> > I'm working on it. Should have proto by the end of week.
> 
> If you are using the power_supply class (i hope you are ;-) then a HAL
> from freedesktop git should make userspace continue to just work.

Having to update HAL is not my definition of "does not break userspace".
And, BTW, there is more than just HAL out there using /proc/acpi, and
this should continue to work.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices        |              "Any ideas, John?"
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09 14:57 [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal Adrian Bunk
2007-07-09 15:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-07-09 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-09 18:46   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-09 18:55     ` Matthew Garrett
2007-07-09 22:06     ` Alan Cox
2007-07-11 17:54     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-07-12  5:32       ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-07-12  9:18         ` Richard Hughes
2007-07-12 10:15           ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-07-16  5:34           ` Stefan Seyfried [this message]
2007-07-10  9:07 ` Zhang Rui

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