Re: Re: Re: Smart Battery System driver

Rich Townsend
2005-01-21T17:06:54Z

Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:04:16PM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
>
>
>>Hasn't anyone written a libpower yet? Battery applets shouldn't be
>>groveling around proc, they should be making library calls. OK all
>>existing apps would need to be changed (probably a big code reduction
>>actually) but this would let the library look for both CM and sbs
>>interfaces (which should not pretend to be a CMBatt of course) and
>>handle them.
>
>
> Thomas Renninger has written a libpower on which his powersaved is based.
> It can be used without powersaved as well. It is hosted on
> http://forge.novell.com (search for powersaved) and on sourceforge
> (sorry, don't know the project name and right now i am offline, it probably
> is also named powersaved).
>
>
>>Bonus points for also supporting APM through this interface...
>
>
> Yes, it can use both without the application knowing what the underlying
> hardware is supporting.
>
> Actually it is right now only extensively used and tested on SUSE, but
> we have some bugreports from people compiling it on Mandrake and Debian
> too, so it should not be too hard to get it going on other Distributions.

But aren't we really looking for a kernel-based libpower -- so that
*nothing* in userspace needs be exposed to the specifics of the hardware?

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