[patch] addon-hid-ups.c : battery.present is mandatory for HAL
spec
David Zeuthen
david at fubar.dk
Sun May 8 20:52:40 PDT 2005
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 19:32 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> According to the HAL spec, battery.present is compulsory for devices
> that have capability battery.
>
> Whilst programming the tooltip logic for Power Manager, I noticed that
> battery.present is never set for my UPS.
I'm aware of this issue
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151766
Note that with an old enough kernel this (and other values) are set
correctly
http://people.redhat.com/davidz/hal-hid-ups.png
> It makes no sense to have a UPS
> without a battery (you can't hot-change the batteries...)
Actually it does though addon-hid-ups doesn't support it just yet.
Should be easy though, patches are welcome :-).
> so this
> parameter should be hard-coded.
>
> Patch attached.
OK, I suppose we can set it so it works with kernels that are borked
too :-). Applied.
David
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