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

[Lan Tianyu]

On 03/14/2014 05:45 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 :(
>
> commit 1e2d9cdfb4494fce682b4ae010d86a2766816d36
> Author: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Oct 11 09:54:08 2013 +0800
>
>      ACPI / Battery: Remove battery's proc directory
>
>      The battery's proc directory isn't useded and remove it.
>
>      Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>
>      Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks like this one is the said commit.
> If it breaks userspace we have to revert it IMHO.

Yes, we will revert the commit if it really breaks some APPs.
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