On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 7:46:23 PM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > 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 outdated stuff.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 is more than outdated.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. And so applied now as 5.9 material, thanks!
