Re: Patch to make battstat work with 2.4.20 ACPI kernels

[Alex Duggan <aldug astrolinux com>]

It's probably a good idea to put that patch in bugzilla as well.

Alex

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 13:40, Alvaro wrote:
> Hi guys!
> 
> Here in Spain manufacturers have started to sell laptops using a
> complete SiS motherboard. With it, APM battery info doesn't work so the
> only way to know the battery status is using ACPI. We have detected that
> current battstat applet doesn't work with our ACPI, 2.4.20 kernels, so I
> started to investigate why.
> 
> After playing a little with the applet, here goes the patch that makes
> battstat works with ACPI in 2.4.20 kernels.
> 
> Is it ok to commit? I have tested it with ACPI and APM machines and it
> seems to works nicely.
> 
> Cheers