acpi battery rework patch

[Eric Kjeldergaard]

On 7/23/05, Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> wrote:
> I have completed a rework of the battery subsystem and would like 
> testing of the patch.  I'd like this to go into 6.0.  It should have no 
> effect for people with working batteries and fixes some bugs for those 
> who don't.  It also makes it possible to import support for smart 
> batteries (not in this patch).
> 
> API changes:
> apm compatibility device:  no change
> sysctl:  no change
> kernel function call:  API reduced.
> ioctl:  API reduced.
> 
> kernel function access:
> Access individual batteries via devclass_find("battery").  Methods are 
> ACPI_BATT_GET_STATUS (for _BST-formatted data) and ACPI_BATT_GET_INFO 
> (for _BIF-formatted data).  The helper function 
> acpi_battery_get_battinfo() has been changed to take a device_t instead 
> of unit # argument.  If dev is NULL, this signifies all batteries.
> 
> ioctl access:
> The ACPIIO_BATT_GET_TYPE and ACPIIO_BATT_GET_BATTDESC ioctls have been 
> removed.  Since there is no mapping between "virtual" unit and actual 
> unit, just specify the unit directly and skip the old translation steps. 
>   For instance, in the future if you have two smart batteries and two 
> control-method batteries, they'll be battery0-3.
> 
> Patch can be found here:
> http://root.org/~nate/freebsd/batt-rework.diff.gz
> 
> Please test to be sure your battery status works as usual, along with 
> any apps.  Since most apps (xbatt, gnome, etc.) use the apm compat 
> layer, they should work as before with no recompilation needed.
> 
> -- 
> Nate
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-CURRENT as of 23/07/2005, does not compile.


cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -pipe -march=pentium4m
-I/usr/src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi/../../../contrib/dev/acpica -Werror
-D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I- 
-I/usr/src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi/../../../contrib/dev/acpica -include
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/UNINFECTABLE/opt_global.h -I. -I@
-I@/contrib/altq -I@/../include -finline-limit=8000 -fno-common 
-I/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/UNINFECTABLE -mno-align-long-strings
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
-mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs
-Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
-Wcast-qual  -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -Wsystem-headers -Werror
-Wall -Wno-format-y2k -Wno-uninitialized -c
/usr/src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi/../../../dev/acpica/acpi.c
In file included from
/usr/src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi/../../../dev/acpica/acpi.c:59:
@/dev/acpica/acpivar.h:397: warning: "struct acpi_bst" declared inside
parameter list
@/dev/acpica/acpivar.h:397: warning: its scope is only this definition
or declaration, which is probably not what you want
@/dev/acpica/acpivar.h:398: warning: "struct acpi_bif" declared inside
parameter list
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/acpi/acpi.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/acpi.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/UNINFECTABLE.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src.


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