On Monday 03 July 2006 20:00, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:16:45PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sunday 02 July 2006 11:15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Sunday 02 July 2006 00:21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > With the recent -git on my box (Asus L5D, x86_64 SUSE 10) the powersave > > > > demon is apparently unable to get the battery status, although the data in > > > > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 seem to be correct. As a result, battery status > > > > notification via kpowersave doesn't work and it's hard to notice when the > > > > battery is low/critical. > > > > > > > > So far I have verified that this feature works fine with 2.6.17-git3 and > > > > doesn't work with 2.6.17-git6 (-git5 doesn't compile here). > > > > > > > > I'll try to get more information tomorrow (unless someone in the know has > > > > an idea of what's up ;-) ). > > > > > > I've verified that the problem first appeared in 2.6.17-git4. > > > > Apparently this happens because powersaved takes the battery status > > information from hald and the following kernel changes make hald crash on > > my system: > > > > http://kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43104f1da88f5335e9a45695df92a735ad550dda > > http://kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bd00949647ddcea47ce4ea8bb2cfcfc98ebf9f2a > > http://kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c182274ffe1277f4e7c564719a696a37cacf74ea > > http://kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9bde7497e0b54178c317fac47a18be7f948dd471 > > http://kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=36679ea59846d8f34a48f71ca1a37671ca0ad3c5 > > > > (ie. after reverting them hald works again). > > Ick, that should not cause any problems, as sysfs should look identical > to how it was before those patches. Except that the /sys/class/usb/ > stuff is now symlinks instead of real directories, but HAL has had to > handle that for a long time now (and it's even documented in > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class) Well, apparently one of them happens to trigger a buffer overflow in "my" version of hal. ;-) > Can you tell me exactly which of the above patches breaks HAL? That would be quite a bit of testing and now I'm sure it's a hal issue. > Which version of HAL are you using? I have 0.5.7 here and it works just > fine. 0.5.4 :-( > And why would they even matter? The battery is not a USB device... No, it's not, but if hald is not running, powersaved cannot get the battery status from it. Well ... Thanks, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
