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    SubjectRe: 3.14-rc: /proc/acpi/battery gone?
    On 03/14/2014 05:45 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
    > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
    >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
    >>> Hi!
    >>>
    >>> It seems /proc/acpi/battery interface is gone, and I don't see any
    >>> option to reintroduce it... what is going on?
    >>
    >> The interface went away in a semi-recent kernel release (3.13 or
    >> 3.12), breaking pretty much every battery app. (Admittedly the
    >> interface was marked as deprecated for quite some time, but that
    >> didn't stop everyone from using it and not caring about the new
    >> thing.) I've yet to find a windowmaker dock app that works with the
    >> current sysfs API :(
    >>
    >
    > commit 1e2d9cdfb4494fce682b4ae010d86a2766816d36
    > Author: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
    > Date: Fri Oct 11 09:54:08 2013 +0800
    >
    > ACPI / Battery: Remove battery's proc directory
    >
    > The battery's proc directory isn't useded and remove it.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
    > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    >
    > Looks like this one is the said commit.
    > If it breaks userspace we have to revert it IMHO.
    >

    Yes, we will revert the commit if it really breaks some APPs.


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