[ltp] Hot swapping ultrabay battery?

Shem Multinymous linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:46:01 -0500


On Jan 21, 2008 5:29 PM, Marc MERLIN <marc_ltp@merlins.org> wrote:
> I just bought an ultrabay battery, hot swapped it in.
> The system sees it because I can see the charging icon, but linux doesn't
> see it:

The out-of-tree tp_smapi driver will see this battery and provide more
information about it than is available via ACPI. However, it currently
provides the data via custom sysfs attributes instead of the generic
battery interface (patches welcome).

 Shem