Re: regression (crash) in sysmon/acpiacad

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:45:40AM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:30:27AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:04:54AM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> > >   * The following sensors should be removed: technology,
> > >     low capacity, and warning capacity. These are not really
> > >     something that should be "sensed".
> > 
> > Technology ok. I'm not too sure about low and warning, given that they
> > normally can't be modified.
> 
> The idea here would be to use the sme_get_limits() and possibly
> sme_set_limits(). This is exactly the rationale behind those callbacks.

The point is that they have specific meaning for the hardware and as I
said, are generally not changeable. For example, on my laptop, the power
LED turns orange when warning cap is reached and shuts down hard on
critical.

Joerg