Ash Milsted wrote: > I wonder how common this problem is. This laptop is quite old (Toshiba > Satellite 1110), but if this is a common issue I guess it makes sense I've seen only one bug report with similar issue -- DSDT required 10 false _BST executions before returning actual value. So, I'd say it is rare enough. > for either HAL or the battery driver to poll in certain cases (e.g. > poll if we haven't been receiving events/interrupts but we should be > charging/discharging or, if it ain't common, this could be a HAL > 'quirk'). As long as users of the uevent interface are aware of this > possible issue I guess they could be responsible for polling - do you > think I should let the HAL guys know? You decide :) - 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