Re: 3.14-rc: /proc/acpi/battery gone?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Mar 14 2014 - 18:11:55 EST


On Fri 2014-03-14 17:29:41, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > It seems /proc/acpi/battery interface is gone, and I don't see any
> > option to reintroduce it... what is going on?
>
> The interface went away in a semi-recent kernel release (3.13 or
> 3.12), breaking pretty much every battery app. (Admittedly the
> interface was marked as deprecated for quite some time, but that
> didn't stop everyone from using it and not caring about the new
> thing.) I've yet to find a windowmaker dock app that works with the
> current sysfs API :(

Name one application it broke, and we'll get it reverted. It broke my
by-hand journalling, at the very least.

Pavel

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