kernel 2.6.24 - Doubled number of batteries with ACPI_PROCFS

[Danny Kukawka]

On Samstag, 27. Oktober 2007, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Samstag, 27. Oktober 2007, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > In kernel 2.6.24-rc1 if I turn on ACPI_PROCFS number of batteries in HAL
> > is doubled; it gets them once via sysfs and once via /proc. Because there
> > may be legal reasons to enable ACPI_PROCFS for compatibility and because
> > there is no way to disable sysfs entries it would be nice if HAL could
> > detect those duplicates. What I am not exactly sure, how. After all we
> > may have non-ACPI batteries in sysfs and ACPI ones in procfs ...
> >
> > -andrey
>
> Okay, I take a look at this. Could you send me your lshal output directly?

Update: found the problems with 2.6.24 and wrote a first patch to fix it, but 
this need much more changes in the acpi addon and on several other places, 
since the sysfs battery/AC code don't work as expected atm. I send a patch as 
soon as it work.

Danny