From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>,
Mark Underwood <basicmark@yahoo.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Generic battery interface
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:33:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060803163311.GA11389@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154604546.4302.482.camel@queen.suse.de>
Hi!
> One should also not rely on the warning/low capacity values.
> I cannot say for sure whether all machines throw an event if these
> limits are reached. We defined our own limits in userspace, this always
> works. I'd go for not using the BIOS limits here at all and take user
> defined capacity warning/low values (in percent) in hal or wherever.
Well, this works okay for normal machines, but... there are strange
machines around.
If you have 10 hours of battery life (zaurus sl-5500) and hardcode
warning to 10% of battery remainin... well you'll warn with 1 hour to
go.
Okay, this probably is not an issue on most notebooks today...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-03 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-27 20:06 Generic battery interface Brown, Len
2006-07-27 20:32 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 23:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 0:27 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 0:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-28 7:42 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 12:25 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-28 13:43 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 15:38 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 15:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-28 22:10 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 23:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-29 9:48 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-29 10:17 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-29 10:30 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-29 10:37 ` Mark Underwood
2006-07-29 11:35 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 8:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-30 11:44 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-30 11:48 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-31 0:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-31 1:34 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 9:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 10:14 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 11:33 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 12:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-28 13:44 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 15:19 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 16:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-30 8:55 ` Greg KH
2006-07-30 9:52 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 11:47 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-30 12:50 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 11:46 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 15:14 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 20:23 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 22:48 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 23:17 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-29 10:36 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-29 11:32 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-29 12:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-29 12:51 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-29 13:42 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-30 9:00 ` Greg KH
2006-07-29 21:06 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 10:05 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 10:34 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 10:37 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 18:37 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-31 21:35 ` Jean Delvare
2006-07-31 22:34 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-31 23:01 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-02 7:18 ` Jean Delvare
2006-08-02 7:46 ` Marek Wawrzyczny
2006-08-03 11:29 ` Thomas Renninger
2006-08-03 16:33 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
[not found] ` <20060731113735.GA22081@creature.apm.etc.tu-bs.de>
[not found] ` <41840b750607310818j7ab2dcddpcb7a14b9a8f10871@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20060731183719.GB22081@creature.apm.etc.tu-bs.de>
2006-07-31 22:45 ` [ltp] " Shem Multinymous
[not found] ` <20060801114303.GA13000@creature.apm.etc.tu-bs.de>
2006-08-02 21:59 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 22:16 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-27 22:56 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 23:08 ` Greg KH
2006-07-27 23:24 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 12:29 ` Jean Delvare
2006-08-02 19:51 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-03 9:20 ` Jean Delvare
2006-07-27 22:56 ` Greg KH
2006-07-27 23:31 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 0:35 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 10:11 ` Vojtech Pavlik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-28 4:05 Brown, Len
2006-07-28 8:22 ` Johan Vromans
2006-07-28 9:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-28 10:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 12:21 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-28 14:13 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 23:20 Brown, Len
2006-07-28 0:10 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 15:40 Brown, Len
2006-07-27 16:23 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 16:50 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-07-27 20:07 ` Shem Multinymous
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