Le August 17, 2008 01:12:19 pm, vous avez écrit :
> > I don't know how acpi works, but I doubt that acpi can't display this
>
> Maybe I didn't express myself well enough, sorry. acpi just reads the data
> as provided by the proc- or sys-filesystem. If there is no information
> provided by the kernel, acpi cannot display it.
>
> > information. Wven if this is true, this is no reason to close this report
> > without justification. If acpi can't display the requested information,
> > it
>
> There was a justification given:
>
> Upon further review it showed that the files needed to gather thermal
> information were not available on this machine. Thus acpi cannot display
> this information.
> ...
>
> I still fail to see why this is no justification.
Do you consider this bug as invalid or what?

> Again, information not 
> provided by the kernel cannot be displayed.
>
> > could print an error. If my system is normal, the acpi manpage should be
> > changed to explain that acpi will only show thermal information when this
> > is possible (ideally indicating when this is possible or not).
>
> The manpage says:
>
> ...
> acpi Shows information from the /proc or the /sys filesystem, ...
>
> It clearly says that acpi only shows information it gets there.
Where?
>
> > So, please reopen. Note that this bug persists with Linux 2.6.26.
>
> No, I won't because this is not a bug in acpi but a problem your system has
> with the kernel. It might be a kernel bug though.



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