Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:50:25 +0400 | From | Anton Vorontsov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.24-rc1: ensure "present" sysfs attribute even if battery is absent |
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:32:04PM -0400, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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.
I didn't say it's hard. But we don't have any interrupts for the battery events, thus we have to implement polling.
> It was done this way in response to a > request from the userspace side. IIRC.
Oh. Userspace tried to do something weird then, I think. Generally it's just sane to unregister absent hardware.
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