[ltp] Hot swapping ultrabay battery?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:46:20PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> There were patches that went by LKML last week that claimed to support
> battery hotplug, whose descrtiptions seemed to imply that they solved
> this problem, but I haven't had time to try them yet.  As far as I
> know no one has commented on them, one way or another.  
> 
> Said patches were sent by Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>, on
> Thursday, January 17th.  You should be able to find them at an LKML
> archive.

I'll look for that, thanks.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 06:46:01PM -0500, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> 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).

Indeed, I got the info there.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:36:44AM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> A lot of information regarding UltraBay batteries can be found here:
> 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_use_UltraBay_batteries

Yeah, I saw that, unfortunately, even the tp_smapi specific gkrellm module
only seems to support one battery at a time.

I guess it'll work soon :)

Marc
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