From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Evgeni Golov <evgeni@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Battery information in sysfs for userspace tools
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:57:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242644274.8339.18.camel@miria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0F2AEC.9060802@gmail.com>
On dim, 2009-05-17 at 01:06 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Currently, sysfs interface repeats brokenness of /proc/acpi/battery
> interface.
Hmmh, ok, but it seems to have change recently (since powertop and
acpitools are definitely wrong when it comes to that)
[…]
> The proper way to handle it is to check for 'energy_now' and if it is
> present, look for 'power_now'. It should be
> present in 2.6.30 and later kernels (remaining time
> energy_now/power_now). If it is not present (as in 2.6.29), then you
> should assume that 'current_now' has value in uW, and remaining time
> is energy_now/current_now.
> If you have 'charge_now', remaining time is charge_now/current_now
> without any complications.
Wow. Thanks for the info, that's definitely not really easily
guessable :) It'd be nice to have that documented somewhere until things
settle down a bit and the situation becomes unbroken.
Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-15 8:07 Battery information in sysfs for userspace tools Yves-Alexis Perez
2009-05-16 21:06 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2009-05-18 10:57 ` Yves-Alexis Perez [this message]
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