From: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
To: Sannu K <sannumail4foss@gmail.com>
Cc: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>,
jic23@cam.ac.uk, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC]power: battery: Generic battery driver using IIO
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 14:34:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120902213450.GA15196@lizard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJx5wk3URzut+zr3b1ba2oeCyVJ2OSWufwbh_NpnzpcU+C3YXA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:44:04PM +0530, Sannu K wrote: [...]
> Just Curious what is the use of this module? Is there any user space
> program uses this? When ACPI drivers for battery is available how
> useful will this be?
That's mostly for embedded devices. They often have batteries directly
connected to ADC (analog to digital converters) channels, so that's the
only way to read e.g. voltage.
As for userspace, since it's battery class driver, pretty much every
userspace stack can use it.
Thanks,
Anton.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-02 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-02 15:39 [PATCH] [RFC]power: battery: Generic battery driver using IIO anish kumar
2012-09-02 16:14 ` Sannu K
2012-09-02 21:34 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2012-09-04 15:05 ` anish kumar
2012-09-07 7:52 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-08 7:10 ` anish kumar
2012-09-08 8:34 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-09-08 10:09 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-09 9:32 ` anish kumar
2012-09-09 9:46 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-09-09 9:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-07 8:49 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-09-08 7:30 ` anish kumar
2012-09-08 10:10 ` Jonathan Cameron
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-10 15:40 anish kumar
2012-09-11 9:59 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-09-12 8:30 ` anish singh
2012-09-13 12:26 ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-09-13 12:33 ` anish singh
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