Re: Battery update

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sven Joachim <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:56:43 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, Emre Sahin <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden
> 
> On 2008-08-08 02:10 +0200, Chong Yidong wrote:
> 
> >        (if (battery-search-for-one-match-in-files
> >         (list "/sys/class/power_supply/AC/online") "1" 0)
> >        "AC"
> 
> FWIW, I don't have a /sys/class/power_supply/AC directory, but there is
> /sys/class/power_supply/ACAD.  Seems the directory has moved somewhere
> between kernel 2.6.22 and 2.6.25, see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478937.

So what, we are now going to chase this elusive directory till Kingdom
Come?  I say let's stop supporting this feature until the Linux kernel
developers make up their minds about the place and shape of this
information.  Geez! that's even worse than Microsoft's zigzagging of
some APIs.