From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762805AbXGPGj4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:39:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752945AbXGPGjq (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:39:46 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49145 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752218AbXGPGjq (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:39:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:34:32 +0200 From: Stefan Seyfried To: Richard Hughes Cc: Alexey Starikovskiy , Bill Davidsen , Jan Engelhardt , Alan Cox , Adrian Bunk , Zhang Rui , lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal Message-ID: <20070716053432.GA20102@suse.de> References: <20070709145755.GD3492@stusta.de> <20070709174544.2a6b7067@the-village.bc.nu> <46951969.4030109@tmr.com> <4695BCEA.4060108@gmail.com> <1184231897.2380.2.camel@work> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1184231897.2380.2.camel@work> X-Operating-System: openSUSE 10.3 (i586) Alpha5plus, Kernel 2.6.22-2-default User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)