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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Subject: Re: ACPI: Always return valid 'status' from acpi_battery_get_property()
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:36:06 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071119183606.GE3580@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4741858D.9020802@gmail.com>

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>>>> handle explicitly.  There doesn't seem to be any status enum value
>>>> defined that makes more sense than 'unknown' for a battery at a
>>>> critical charge level.
>>
>> Maybe one should be added?
>>   
> There is already "Critical" field for capacity.

Ah, that's ok, then.

> It seems that the state should be limited to only 3 options:
>    charging, discharging, and not charging.

I'd call "not charging", "idle" instead.  After all, discharging IS not
charging as well...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-19 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07 23:09 ACPI: Always return valid 'status' from acpi_battery_get_property() Roland Dreier
2007-11-08  8:29 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-08 14:42   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-11-19 12:46     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-11-19 18:36       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2007-11-19 18:41         ` Alexey Starikovskiy

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