clone 495541 -1 reassign -1 powertop retitle -1 fix assumption on /sys exported power files stop
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:52:21PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting maximilian attems ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > So, the support for it was reinstated by Maks in 2.6.24-3. > > > > yes it was to give userspace some time to react. > > we allways stated that we *don't* guarantee to have it set for lenny. > > What I regret is that there should have been more communication with > developers. > > Being the source of the change, the consequences should have been > tracked by the kernel team and the change made at the moment all > userspace utilities have been updated. Which is what I call a > transition. no the kernel is not a lib if an app doesn't work with default kernel it is plain buggy. > Well: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/acpi/events> dpkg -s powertop > Package: powertop > .../... > Version: 1.10-1 > > Is there something I'm missing hereĀ ? > > "my" powertop is still reporting that "no ACPI power usage estimate > available" right we debugged that with jcristau on irc and powertop is buggy. if current_now or energy_now or voltage_now is not present in for example /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/ no value will be shown. > See also #491396 for acpi-support: that one lead me to think that > there are still utilities that are broken by dropping /proc/acpi > support and it would better be reinstated. > > (indeed all this plus following Sulamita Garcia's talk at DC8 and the > discussions we had later brings me to the idea of a "Power Management > team", dealing with these issues and who could be a good reference > point in such situations, but that's mostly another story) deprecated ACPI_PROCFS_POWER will be set for lenny as it is show now that too much userspace is still too buggy to interpret the sys files. kind regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]