linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: hid-input: default HID_BATTERY

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Message-ID: <1334758134.8818.132.camel@novo.hadess.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:08:54 +0100
From:	Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...oraproject.org, Richard Hughes <richard@...hsie.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: hid-input: default HID_BATTERY_STRENGTH to no

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:05 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Commit 4f5ca836b "HID: hid-input: add support for HID devices reporting
> Battery Strength" added the CONFIG_HID_BATTERY_STRENGTH option to report
> the battery strength of HID devices.  The commit log explicitly mentions
> it not working properly with recent userspace, but it is default y
> anyway.  This is rather odd, and actually causes problems on real
> systems.
> 
> This works around Fedora bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806295

Don't. The only bit of user-space that's broken is upower, and it's
getting a fixed release shortly.

Richard?

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