Le 03/09/2014 07:30, Evgeni Golov a écrit : > There is effort (by jak@) to get support for that into the kernel[1], > would this make acpi-call obsolete again? > > [1] https://github.com/julian-klode/linux/commits/linux-3.14
I guess so. This would be a good thing, since either older or newer ThinkPad models would have a common way to modify battery thresholds, by setting values in /sys. However, according to kernel.org git, these changes have not yet been merged even in 3.17, and IIRC, 3.15 has already been choosen for Jessie. In the meantime, ThinkWiki still advises to use tp-smapi for older models and tpacpi-bat (which needs acpi-call) for newer models. Furthermore (correct me if I'm wrong), judging by the various forums throughout the Web, TLP is now considered by a fairly large portion of the community to be the best tool to optimize power consumption on laptops, and until jak's code is merged in the official kernel, it still relies on tpacpi-bat, which needs acpi-call; and while not yet in Debian, according to Thomas Koch, it's in the way (see #711471). TLP is available in the official repositories for most Linux distros, including Arch and Fedora; for Debian and Ubuntu, there's Thomas Kochs's PPA. Using PPAs in Debian is generally not advised, but either way (PPA or official Debian package), packaging acpi-call is the very first step, and as I said in my ITP, much cleaner than letting the tpacpi-bat script download/build/install the module on its own, unbeknown to dpkg. I guess your question could be answered like this: if jak's code makes it to Debian's 3.15 kernel package (by cherry-picking patches), acpi-call will be obsolete (at least for this particular use) in all future Debian releases, including Jessie. If not, and if it's included in later official kernel releases, acpi-call will be needed only for Jessie, and obsoleted in subsequent Debian releases (again, for this particular use only). Regards, -- Raphaël HALIMI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5407374c.4070...@gmail.com