Disable CONFIG_ACPI_SYSFS_POWER?

[drago01]

On Feb 18, 2008 6:06 AM, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:08:02PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>  > On 02/16/2008 06:53 AM, drago01 wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > I tested the kernel-2.6.24.2-3.fc8 (downloaded the x86_64 build
>  > > directly) on my laptop.
>  > > Hal detects two batteries because it looks in sysfs and in procfs for
>  > > the battery info. I tryed to apply the patch from the hal-list which
>  > > causes hal to not look in procfs but in sysfs only when the sysfs info
>  > > is available. The problem with this is that the info in sysfs is broken
>  > > (capcity 3.0 Wh etc while the procfs info is correct 45Wh).
>  > > I would suggest to set CONFIG_ACPI_SYSFS_POWER to n because the procfs
>  > > info already provides this data for userspace and does not report broken
>  > > values.
>  > >
>  >
>  > We should be enabling either one or the other, not both.
>  >
>  > For Fedora 9 maybe it should be the sysfs interface if it works.
>  >
>  > For 8 it should be only procfs to be backwards compatible. I'll do that.
>
> Yeah, you need a new enough hal aparently, which I guess f8 didn't have.
> F9 should be safe to be using just the sysfs stuff.

I have not tested rawhide on a laptop yet, but it seems that rawhide
still uses hal-0.5.10 (which is also the lastest upstream); on F8 this
one was not working for me.
But David might know more....