Re: [PATCH] 2.6.24-rc1: ensure "present" sysfs attribute even ifbattery is absent

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Sat Oct 27 2007 - 15:32:08 EST


On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 22:42 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Well, PROP_PRESENT wasn't my idea, currently it's used by pmu and
> olpc drivers becuase it's not trivial to register/unregister their
> batteries on physical insertion/removal. I have some plans to teach
> at least pmu batteries to not use PROP_PRESENT. I don't have any
> OLPC, thus I can't convert it.

Actually it's not hard to do that. It was done this way in response to a
request from the userspace side. IIRC.

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dwmw2

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