On Friday 17 September 2010 18:21:55 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 4/29/2010 1:30 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I removed all depreciated /proc/acpi stuff from kernel, as new acpid > > supports the netlink interface. > > > > I found out that powertop stopped estimating the power correctly. > > > > > From its sources I can see it uses the /proc/acpi interface. > > Isn't there a way to get these from the new none depreciated sysfs? > > > > Thanks! > > since the sysfs interface was buggy until 2.6.36-rc...... powertop > will need to support the /proc/acpi interface for some time to come. Was this about the wrong/mixed up battery Watts/h Ampere quantity? > I don't think you can remove /proc/acpi from the kernel for the next > 2+ years. If the fixes are easy, they could/should be put into stable kernels down to 2.6.32, this would at least speed up things a bit.
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