linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 2.6.24-rc1: ensure "present" sysfs attribute even if battery is absent

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:32:04 -0400
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	cbou@...l.ru
Cc:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davidz@...hat.com, rhughes@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.24-rc1: ensure "present" sysfs attribute even if
	battery is absent

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. It was done this way in response to a
request from the userspace side. IIRC.

-- 
dwmw2

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/