From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk>,
pali.rohar@gmail.com, sre@kernel.org,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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patrikbachan@gmail.com, serge@hallyn.com, abcloriens@gmail.com,
clayton@craftyguy.net, martijn@brixit.nl,
sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com,
Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@open-nandra.com>,
robh+dt@kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-18 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 20:55 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add formula for LiIon batteries to compute capacity Marek Belisko
2017-08-01 20:55 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] dt-bindings: power: Add battery types Marek Belisko
2017-08-02 11:38 ` Pavel Machek
2017-08-02 11:43 ` Pavel Machek
2017-08-02 11:47 ` Belisko Marek
2017-08-01 20:55 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Parse more properties from DT Marek Belisko
2017-08-02 11:56 ` Pavel Machek
2017-08-02 11:57 ` Belisko Marek
2017-08-29 9:45 ` Sebastian Reichel
2017-08-01 20:55 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] power/generic-adc-battery: Add support for temperature and add check for charge from iio current channel Marek Belisko
2017-08-29 9:54 ` Sebastian Reichel
2017-08-01 20:55 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] power: Add formula for computing LiIon State of Charge from Voltage Marek Belisko
2017-08-01 20:55 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Add capacity handling Marek Belisko
2017-08-29 10:11 ` Sebastian Reichel
2017-09-08 11:32 ` libbattery was " Pavel Machek
2017-09-08 13:15 ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2017-10-18 12:28 ` 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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