From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: apm.c and multiple battery slots
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:01:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12638.1012737679@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1012705104.774.4.camel@thanatos>
In-Reply-To: <1012705104.774.4.camel@thanatos>
jdthood@mail.com said:
> > Then we could add one line for each battery slot,
> > indicating <battery status> <battery flag> <battery left % >
> > <remaining time in seconds>
> How about putting each of these lines in a separate proc file? This
> would avoid changing the format of /proc/apm, which would break
> things.
Please don't add an APM-specific interface for batteries. Look at the other
code which talks to batteries - the ACPI code, SMBus and numerous other
drivers for embedded systems - and design an interface to userspace which
can be used by all of them.
Preferably not in /proc.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-03 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-03 2:58 apm.c and multiple battery slots Thomas Hood
2002-02-03 6:53 ` Stevie O
2002-02-03 12:01 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-02-04 2:55 ` APM and APIC -- multiple batteries (was: apm.c and multiple battery slots) Stevie O
2002-02-05 13:54 ` Pavel Machek
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2002-02-02 13:30 apm.c and multiple battery slots Thomas Hood
2002-02-02 21:23 ` Stevie O
2002-02-02 4:58 Stevie O
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