bug#643: marked as done (23.0.60; battery.el needs deprecated ACPI_PROCFS_POWER interface)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #643,
regarding 23.0.60; battery.el needs deprecated ACPI_PROCFS_POWER interface
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> 23.0.60; battery.el needs deprecated ACPI_PROCFS_POWER interface
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> Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:04:05 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)
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> In recent Linux kernels, the information about battery status has been
> moved from /proc/acpi/battery to /sys/class/power_supply.  It is only
> available from the former place if the kernel has been built with the
> ACPI_PROCFS_POWER option, which is deprecated:
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> ,----[ /usr/src/linux-2.6.26.1/drivers/acpi/Kconfig ]
> | config ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
> |       bool "Deprecated power /proc/acpi directories"
> |       depends on PROC_FS
> |       default y
> |       ---help---
> |         For backwards compatibility, this option allows
> |           deprecated power /proc/acpi/ directories to exist, even when
> |           they have been replaced by functions in /sys.
> |           The deprecated directories (and their replacements) include:
> |         /proc/acpi/battery/* (/sys/class/power_supply/*)
> |         /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/* (sys/class/power_supply/*)
> |         This option has no effect on /proc/acpi/ directories
> |         and functions, which do not yet exist in /sys
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> |         Say N to delete power /proc/acpi/ directories that have moved to /sys/
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> At least Debian ships kernels that are built without ACPI_PROCFS_POWER,
> so battery.el will not work with them.
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> Sven
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> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:49:56 -0400
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> I've checked in the patch.
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