[ltp] no /proc/acpi/battery entry after ultrabay hotswap

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:23:45 -0300


On Fri, 06 Jul 2007, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > I think the battery probing is only done on startup, reloading the
> > battery module won't help :(
> 
> Is this a kernel, BIOS or hardware limitaton? How is the Ulrabay

Kernel driver limitation.

> battery handled in windows if the user puts it in after the boot
> process?

It just works.  But the thinkpad's battery utilities do not use or care for
ACPI, so...

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