Re: Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver

Stefan Seyfried
2005-01-21T17:48:11Z

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:16:12PM +0000, Pedro Venda wrote:

> wasn't there a not-so-recent-but-almost discussion about this issue in the
> acpi-devel mailing list? I think people argued that acpi would NOT generate
> events! that could mean that the acpi layer wouldn't generate events at all
> or
> that it wouldn't generate events on behalf of hardware unable to generate
> events.

i have no idea ;-) I know that hp nx5000's continuously notify me via
/proc/acpi/event if the charge level changes, so i only have to poll battery
after an notification and that is very handy IMO :-)
--
Stefan Seyfried

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