From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: New Smart Battery release (incl. updated embedded controller patches) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:09:02 +0000 Message-ID: <20051114160902.GA23683@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4376BD90.5080603@bartol.udel.edu> <200511141805.54633.luming.yu@intel.com> <20051114121512.GB1570@elf.ucw.cz> <20051114155810.GA23604@srcf.ucam.org> <20051114160525.GA9288@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051114160525.GA9288-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org> 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: Pavel Machek Cc: "Yu, Luming" , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Rich Townsend List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:05:25PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Why? The spec explicitly allows smart batteries without the DSDT > > providing a control method interface. > > Then it was probably mistake :-(. Unfortunately I don't have any hardware here which uses smart batteries, but Gnome (at least) has switched over to using Hal for displaying battery information. It would be pretty straight forward to add support for parsing the information from a smart battery driver. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php