Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:58:54 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Acer smart battery (was Re: [RFC] Include ACPI DSDT from INITRD patch into mainline)
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On Sat 2006-12-02 18:34:59, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 13:50, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > > Acer notebook users here dump DSDT from their own machine, fix it and
> > > then load via initrd. No legal problems. (... and without that even
> > > battery can't be monitored on sych notebooks)
> >
> > Merge smart battery support, instead of hacking DSDT. It is about time
> > linux started supporting smart batteries, and yes they are documented.
> Are you talking about this?
> https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=604605

Yes.

> It's seem to be already merged and I didn't even know about that
>feature.

Aha, I did not know that. Anyway, it should mean
no-longer-patching-DSDT.
									Pavel
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