Re: smartbattery support

Pavel Machek
2004-10-07T09:41:10Z

Hi!

> i decided to change the subject so that the thread could more easily
> be followed by others.
>
> i read some things also, but i disagree with christian. i think that
> smbus patch is not the way to go. don't get me wrong! i'm also just
> scratching the surface. for what i read, those patches put smbus bios
> support into the kernel.

Agreed, we do not want to touch BIOS.

> 2. what exactly should the i2c driver do? should it just know the
> smartbattery address and ask generic questions made by userland
> programs? or should it do all the work and retrive charge rates and
> capacity information and such?

I believe doing all the work is right.

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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms