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Message-Id: <200710262305.15495.strohel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:05:14 +0200
From: Matej Laitl <strohel@...il.com>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@...il.com>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI: use select POWER_SUPPLY for AC, BATTERY and SBS (was: [2.624-rc1 regression] lost battery information)
Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> ACPI: use select POWER_SUPPLY for AC, BATTERY and SBS
>
> From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
>
> POWER_SUPPLY is needed for AC, battery, and SBS sysfs support.
> Use 'select' instead of 'depends on', as it is will not be selected
> by anything else, leading to confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
> ---
>
> drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 8 +++++---
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> index 5d0e26a..ecd87d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ config ACPI_PROC_EVENT
>
> config ACPI_AC
> tristate "AC Adapter"
> - depends on X86 && POWER_SUPPLY
> + depends on X86
> + select POWER_SUPPLY
> default y
> help
> This driver adds support for the AC Adapter object, which
> indicates @@ -97,7 +98,8 @@ config ACPI_AC
>
> config ACPI_BATTERY
> tristate "Battery"
> - depends on X86 && POWER_SUPPLY
> + depends on X86
> + select POWER_SUPPLY
> default y
> help
> This driver adds support for battery information through
> @@ -352,7 +354,7 @@ config ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY
> config ACPI_SBS
> tristate "Smart Battery System"
> depends on X86
> - depends on POWER_SUPPLY
> + select POWER_SUPPLY
> help
> This driver adds support for the Smart Battery System, another
> type of access to battery information, found on some laptops.
I'd love if this got merged, as I also lost my battery information by
not-enabling POWER_SUPPLY (which looks like something unrelated to ACPI). (I
know "select" is evil, but this use-case is appropriate, IMO)
Matej
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