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Acer Laptop Battery Control Driver Looks Toward The Upstream Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 January 2026

For those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental "acer-wmi-battery" kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features. Now a cleaned-up version of that driver is working on getting into the mainline Linux kernel...

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