Quoting maximilian attems (max@stro.at): > > So, the support for it was reinstated by Maks in 2.6.24-3. > > yes it was to give userspace some time to react. > we allways stated that we *don't* guarantee to have it set for lenny. What I regret is that there should have been more communication with developers. Being the source of the change, the consequences should have been tracked by the kernel team and the change made at the moment all userspace utilities have been updated. Which is what I call a transition. I'm well aware of the lack of resources of the kernel team and I know that such transitions are hard to manage. However, in such cases, I would suggest you to be more conservative than you might have been, which is mostly the point of my bug report. > > > However, CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER is left undefined and, therefore, some > > informations are not available (such as powertop failing to report the power > > consumption). > > > > Could you reactivate this option in an upcomiong uplad? > > why? > > please upgrade your powertop installation. Well: root@mykerinos:/etc/acpi/events> dpkg -s powertop Package: powertop .../... Version: 1.10-1 Is there something I'm missing here ? "my" powertop is still reporting that "no ACPI power usage estimate available" See also #491396 for acpi-support: that one lead me to think that there are still utilities that are broken by dropping /proc/acpi support and it would better be reinstated. (indeed all this plus following Sulamita Garcia's talk at DC8 and the discussions we had later brings me to the idea of a "Power Management team", dealing with these issues and who could be a good reference point in such situations, but that's mostly another story)
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