On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:07 PM Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2020, 17:49:09 CEST schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 5:33 PM Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Kernel development should not be hindered anymore by this absolutely > > > outdated stuff. > > > > Well, this is a bit vague. > > > > I'm not against making this change, but why do it now? Is there > > anything in particular that cannot be done without it? > > Because of the deprecated message being shown on laptops booting with > the option enabled. I got a bugreport about it recently. > > I could not please check_patch to properly include this commit id > (recon the double quotes in the title): > > e63f6e28dda6de3de2392ddca321e211fd860925 > Date: Mon Jul 7 01:13:46 2014 +0200 > > Revert "ACPI / AC: Remove AC's proc directory." > > Revert commit ab0fd674d6ce (ACPI / AC: Remove AC's proc directory.), > because some old tools (e.g. kpowersave from kde 3.5.10) are still > using /proc/acpi/ac_adapter. > > Fixes: ab0fd674d6ce (ACPI / AC: Remove AC's proc directory.) > > > kpowersave was written by myself and I can say for sure, that this stuff > is more than outdated. Fair enough, but I'd rather stage it for 5.9 to give it a full cycle of baking in linux-next. Thanks!
