Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > > Does that change the fact it is ugly ?
> > >
> > > No, but it does beg the question "how else can it be done"?
> >
> > Agreed.
> 
> So how else can it be done?
> 
> > > Distros need a way for users to add a fixed DSDT without recompiling
> > > their own kernels.
> >
> > Legal rights to do so aside, do they ? 
> 
> Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and then 
> load via initrd. No legal problems. (... and without that even battery can't 
> be monitored on sych notebooks)

Merge smart battery support, instead of hacking DSDT. It is about time
linux started supporting smart batteries, and yes they are documented.

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Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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