From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: RE: Re: Smart Battery System driver Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:03:17 +0000 Message-ID: <1106265797.30227.3.camel@tyrosine> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:04 -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote: > Hasn't anyone written a libpower yet? Battery applets shouldn't be > groveling around proc, they should be making library calls. OK all > existing apps would need to be changed (probably a big code reduction > actually) but this would let the library look for both CM and sbs > interfaces (which should not pretend to be a CMBatt of course) and > handle them. hal is probably the right layer to do this, rather than develop yet another niche abstraction library. I believe the fd.o people are working on it. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl