[Pm-utils] on_ac_power is broken

[Peter Jones]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 10:22 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

> The problem is, that on a desktop, there can be no AC adapter (the power
> supply is not exposed via ACPI for example), but a battery, for example
> the battery in the wireless mouse :-)

Gah!  OK, I guess this is true.

> Instead of checking for the exact battery type and add even more dbus calls
> to HAL with all their overhead, i decided to just skip the battery test:
> 
> - if there are no AC adapters at all:
>   => assume "on AC power", since this is probably a desktop.
>      exit 0
> - check all ac adapters:
>   - if any is "online", => exit 0, "on AC power"
> - exit 1, no ac adapter was online => on battery.

Sounds good.

> The only thing i can remember where i could be wrong here is if there are
> machines where the AC adapter "appears" once you plug it in, and disappears
> once you unplug it. I have not yet seen such a machine yet (both ACPI and
> APM always have the adapter, but it is either "online" or "offline").

Let's deal with that if we see it.

Patch applied.  I changed some of the comments, as well as the NOTE at
the top of the file.

-- 
  Peter