RE: Re: Smart Battery System driver

Matthew Garrett
2005-01-21T00:03:17Z

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.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org

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