From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: libbattery was Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Add capacity handling
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 06:22:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018132204.GD4394@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61BFA8AF-657A-4AD7-A7AC-3E5DC3B7E83D@goldelico.com>
* H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> [171018 05:49]:
> > Am 18.10.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>:
> >
> > So I started something, it is at.
> >
> > https://github.com/pavelmachek/libbattery
> >
> > My battery on n900 is currently uncalibrated (and charging), still it
> > gets some kind of estimation:
> >
> > Battery -1 %
> > Seconds -1
> > State 1
> > Voltage 3.88 V
> > Battery 63 %
> >
> > Of course, there's a lot more work to be done.
>
> Nice start but not a solution to our problem.
>
> Our problem is that people simply expect that for example https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xfce/xfce4-battery-plugin
> displays the battery percentage.
I think we could make things compatible with various battery apps by
having libbattery write back the capacity percentage and time remaining
to the kernel driver via sysfs or a dev entry. Then the kernel interface
can just display the data to whatever apps.
Regards,
Tony
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2017-10-18 12:28 ` libbattery was Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Add capacity handling Pavel Machek
2017-10-18 12:48 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-10-18 13:09 ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-18 13:22 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2017-10-18 13:56 ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-18 15:52 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-10-18 16:13 ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-18 16:48 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-10-18 15:47 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-10-19 16:24 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-10-19 16:55 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-10-19 17:06 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-10-19 17:20 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-10-19 17:33 ` Ladislav Michl
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