On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > >> > >> Fully charged >> > >> battery shows as empty battery with red "x" in Mate desktop. After >> > >> reboot to recent mainline problem goes away. Tooltip says "battery >> > >> waiting to charge". >> > >> >> >> For the MATE bug see: >> https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-power-manager/pull/251 >> >> The problem is in the new composite battery system in UPower, it >> "merges" two external batteries into a single one for reporting. That >> battery does not understand "Not Charging" inside the MATE Power >> Manager. The above patch fixes that in MATE. > > Ok, so problem is 91eea70e5e5ce12eb1c7cd922e561fab43e201bd. > > And now, I see that MATE should be improved. > > But what I also see is that kernel is changing its interface in a way > that (while making sense) breaks existing application. And we don't > break existing applications. > > [Now... maybe if the fix for the application is available for long > long time and noone is really looking and everyone already has new > application version, maybe ... But pull request for MATE is 9 days > old, and not even merged. So there is no way this is suitable for > 4.17.] Right. This basically means that we will have to defer the battery changes until user space is ready and not just upstream, but also in distro packages. -- 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
