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bug#643: Battery update
From: |
Sven Joachim |
Subject: |
bug#643: Battery update |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:09:48 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On 2008-08-07 18:35 +0200, Chong Yidong wrote:
> The Linux kernel developers have deprecated the longstanding /proc/acpi
> interface, which breaks battery.el on recent kernels (bug#643 and
> bug#660). Now, the battery information is supposed to come through
> sysfs.
>
> Even though it's the feature freeze, I think it's necessary to ensure
> that battery.el works at least at a basic level. So, here's a patch
> that adds primitive sysfs support for battery.el. It doesn't do as much
> as before, because AFAICT the new sysfs interface provides less
> information than the old acpi interface (go figure).
>
> It's lightly tested. Could someone try this out and see if it does the
> right thing?
The results are funny on my laptop (battery full, online):
Power N/A, battery Full at (-34.7% load, remaining time)
Sven
- bug#643: Battery update, Chong Yidong, 2008/08/07
- bug#643: Battery update,
Sven Joachim <=
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- bug#643: Battery update, Sven Joachim, 2008/08/07
- bug#643: Battery update, Chong Yidong, 2008/08/07
- bug#643: Battery update, Emre Sahin, 2008/08/08
- bug#643: Battery update, Chong Yidong, 2008/08/07
- bug#643: Battery update, Sven Joachim, 2008/08/08
- bug#643: Battery update, Emre Sahin, 2008/08/08
- bug#643: Battery update, OFFICE ZERO, 2008/08/08