Re: [GIT PULL RFC] directly poll battery strength when reading power_supply

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

On 12/07/2011 09:29 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 7 December 2011 17:25, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>> Something like this?
>> @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ static ssize_t power_supply_show_property(struct device *dev,
>>        static char *capacity_level_text[] = {
>>                "Unknown", "Critical", "Low", "Normal", "High", "Full"
>>        };
>> +       static char *scope_text[] = {
>> +               "Unknown", "System", "Device"
>> +       };
> That looks perfect.

OK, I'll put it into a submittable form when I get the chance (oh, and
compile and test it).

>
> Well, upower just assigns a "kind" to each battery which means the
> clients can for instance show all the laptop batteries, but ignore any
> mice and keyboards. For practical purposes, it's so we suspend the
> computer for a low power laptop battery, but not for a low power
> keyboard :)

So you could make that determination from the scope?

    J