From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: New Smart Battery release (incl. updated embedded controller patches) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:23:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20051114162319.GC9288@elf.ucw.cz> 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> <20051114160902.GA23683@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051114160902.GA23683-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@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: Matthew Garrett Cc: "Yu, Luming" , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Rich Townsend List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > 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. Ugh... is there any reason why smart battery driver could not present information in same (or very similar?) way to /proc/acpi/battery/*/*? Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! ------------------------------------------------------- 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