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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	vojtech@suse.cz, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic battery interface
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:58:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060728095806.GA2046@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CFF307C98FEABE47A452B27C06B85BB601168B34@hdsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:05:35AM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:

> Wonderful, but isn't the key here how simple it is for HAL
> or X to understand and use the kernel API rather than the
> developers of the kernel driver that implements the API?

HAL currently gets most of its information from sysfs, and managed to 
deal with parsing the existing /proc/acpi/battery stuff. I don't think 
there's any real difficulty there.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-28  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-28  4:05 Generic battery interface Brown, Len
2006-07-28  8:22 ` Johan Vromans
2006-07-28  9:58 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2006-07-28 10:10   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 12:21 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-28 14:13 ` Shem Multinymous
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-27 23:20 Brown, Len
2006-07-28  0:10 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 20:06 Brown, Len
2006-07-27 20:32 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 23:24   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28  0:27     ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28  0:36       ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-28  7:42       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 12:25         ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-28 13:43           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 15:38             ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 15:57               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-28 22:10                 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 23:14                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-29  9:48                     ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-29 10:17                       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-29 10:30                         ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-29 10:37                       ` Mark Underwood
2006-07-29 11:35                         ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30  8:35                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-30 11:44                         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-30 11:48                         ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-31  0:58                           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-31  1:34                             ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30  9:18             ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 10:14               ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 11:33                 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 12:25         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-28 13:44           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 15:19           ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 16:10             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-30  8:55               ` Greg KH
2006-07-30  9:52                 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 11:47                   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-30 12:50                     ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 14:29                   ` Tomasz Torcz
2006-07-30 14:48                     ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 11:46                 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 15:14         ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 20:23           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28 22:48             ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 23:17               ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-29 10:36               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-29 11:32                 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-29 12:04                   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-29 12:51                     ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-29 13:42                       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-30  9:00                         ` Greg KH
2006-07-29 21:06               ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 10:05                 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 10:34                   ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-30 10:37                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 18:37                 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-31 21:35                   ` Jean Delvare
2006-07-31 22:34                     ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-31 23:01                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-02  7:18                       ` Jean Delvare
2006-08-02  7:46                         ` Marek Wawrzyczny
2006-08-03 11:29                         ` Thomas Renninger
2006-08-03 16:33                           ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-27 22:16 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-27 22:56   ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 23:08     ` Greg KH
2006-07-27 23:24       ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 12:29         ` Jean Delvare
2006-08-02 19:51           ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-03  9:20             ` Jean Delvare
2006-07-27 22:56   ` Greg KH
2006-07-27 23:31   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-28  0:35     ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-28 10:11       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-27 15:40 Brown, Len
2006-07-27 16:23 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 16:50   ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-07-27 20:07     ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27  0:20 Pavel Machek
2006-07-27 14:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-27 14:39   ` Shem Multinymous
2006-07-27 14:44     ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-27 22:42       ` Greg KH
2006-07-27 14:59     ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-27 15:10       ` Shem Multinymous

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