Re: Generic battery interface

Pavel Machek
2006-07-27T23:24:40Z

Hi!

> > >+ perhaps it would not need explicit maintainer, just assign names
> > > carefully
> >
> > We also need to decide on clear convention about units. Are they in
> > the output and/or filename? Filename is best, I think, since it's
> > impossible to miss and works nicely for input attributes too.
>
> Actually, this whole thing could probably just go under the 'hwmon'
> interface, as it already handles other hardware monitoring events. I
> don't see how a battery would be any different, do you?

Heh... yes, hwmon already has voltage, current, and more importantly,
a maintainer.

I'd still prefer batteries to go into /sys/class/battery/... they are
really different from lm78-style voltage sensor and I'd not expect
battery applet to understand all the fields "normal" hwmon
exports. But conventions developed by hwmon group look sane and
usable.

Actually I do not see "hwmon infrastructure" to exist. Every driver
just uses sysfs directly. I'm not sure that the best option --
"input-like" infrastructure can make drivers even shorter -- but
perhaps just directly using sysfs is best for simple task like a battery?

Jean, any ideas?
Pavel
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