Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:18:17AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:32 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> > >> [*] Does someone have an alternative for
> > >> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/{state,info}?
> > I'm working on it. Should have proto by the end of week.
> 
> If you are using the power_supply class (i hope you are ;-) then a HAL
> from freedesktop git should make userspace continue to just work.

Having to update HAL is not my definition of "does not break userspace".
And, BTW, there is more than just HAL out there using /proc/acpi, and
this should continue to work.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
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