From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Wanted: A program description of the ACPI driver 'battery' Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 05:47:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20070518044715.GA28428@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1179460442.5364.22.camel@MD97600> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:38202 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754750AbXERErX (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 00:47:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1179460442.5364.22.camel@MD97600> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Detlef Lechner Cc: Mailingliste linux-acpi On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:54:02AM +0200, Detlef Lechner wrote: > Hello, > > Is there publicly available in the Internet a program description of the > ACPI driver 'battery' The ACPI specification is available from http://www.acpi.info/spec30a.htm . In summary, when queried via /proc, the driver evaluates specific ACPI functions. Battery information is passed back in a defined structure, and the driver formats this information and presents it to the reader. > Among other things, I am interested to know if there are interferences > with drivers sbs, i2c_ec and i2c_core which Ubuntu 7.04 also loaded > automatically. No. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org