Re: Smart Battery System driver

Bruno Ducrot
2005-01-17T11:33:59Z

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:23:24PM -0500, Rich Townsend wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> Recently, Bruno Ducrot posted a driver that allows access to smart
> batteries, through the /dev/i2c interface. This came at just the right
> time for me, since I'd recently purchased an Acer TravelMate 4502, and
> had no way to monitor the status of the smart battery.
>
> However, this driver is primarily to allow access to the SMBus inside
> the embedded controller that communicates with the Smart Battery System
> (SBS); other tools are required to read the battery status. Bruno
> provided a userspace tool, but there is still a requirement for some
> form of /proc/acpi interface that current battery-monitoring tools can read.
>
> Accordingly, I've written a first shot at an SBS ACPI driver. This
> driver, which can be downloaded from
>
> http://shayol.bartol.udel.edu/~rhdt/download/acpi_sbs-20040114.tar.gz
>

That's fine! Many thanks.

--
Bruno Ducrot

-- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
-- Don't know. Don't care.

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