Re: Generic battery interface

Matthew Garrett
2006-07-28T09:58:20Z

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.

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