Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:28:42 +0100 From: Dan Lukes <dan@obluda.cz> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ENXIOing non-present battery Message-ID: <54840FBA.5050409@obluda.cz> In-Reply-To: <54840781.70603@freebsd.org> References: <54840781.70603@freebsd.org>
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Colin Percival wrote: > it seems like not attaching a non-present battery would be a good idea. This shouldn't be the default behaviour, since > there are plenty of systems where a non-present battery might be inserted at > a later time; but I see nothing wrong with adding an option. > > The attached patch adds a acpi.cmbat.hide_not_present loader tunable which, > as the name suggests, hides non-present batteries; this is done in the probe > code by returning ENXIO > Any objections to me committing this? No, but it may be more useful to create more generalized interface. A remember broken ACPI with issues related to ghost floppy drive when no real floppy drive has been present. Not only battery, but any device should be considered non-attachable upon administrator request. Just my $0.02 Dan
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