From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Generic battery interface Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 01:01:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20060731230145.GF3612@elf.ucw.cz> References: <41840b750607271332q5dea0848y2284b30a48f78ea7@mail.gmail.com> <20060727232427.GA4907@suse.cz> <41840b750607271727q7efc0bb2q706a17654004cbbc@mail.gmail.com> <20060728074202.GA4757@suse.cz> <41840b750607280814x50db03erb30d833802ae983e@mail.gmail.com> <20060728202359.GB5313@suse.cz> <41840b750607281548h5ee2219eka1de6745b692c092@mail.gmail.com> <41840b750607291406p2f843054rc89fa1c3c467688d@mail.gmail.com> <41840b750607301137t1e10fe88o3a1c73e7a4b4bf44@mail.gmail.com> <20060731233536.92b39035.khali@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2449 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030377AbWGaXDj (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:03:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060731233536.92b39035.khali@linux-fr.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: Shem Multinymous , Vojtech Pavlik , "Brown, Len" , Matthew Garrett , kernel list , linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Mark Underwood , Greg KH Hi! > frequently it can read from the chip. And no hardware monitoring chip I > know of can tell when the monitored value has changed - you have to read > the chip registers to know. ACPI battery can tell when values change in significant way. (Like battery becoming critical). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html