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From: "Westerberg, Mika" <mika.westerberg@intel.com>
To: "Pallala, Ramakrishna" <ramakrishna.pallala@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: How to populate Battery information through ACPI tables
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:38:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130219183816.GK2439@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D854C92F57B1B347B57E531E78D05EAD24661A83@BGSMSX102.gar.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:22:01PM +0200, Pallala, Ramakrishna wrote:
> Mika, I want to populate this characterization data as device
> specific/custom data which could be anything And may not be entirely
> related to battery. Is this is possible?

Yes, for example you could have a custom ACPI method with your device which
then returns this information.

See for example chapter 10.2.2.1 from the ACPI spec. It describes _BIF
method that returns some battery data to the caller.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-19 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-19 15:07 How to populate Battery information through ACPI tables Pallala, Ramakrishna
2013-02-19 15:20 ` Westerberg, Mika
2013-02-19 17:11   ` Pallala, Ramakrishna
2013-02-19 17:42     ` Westerberg, Mika
2013-02-19 17:45       ` Pallala, Ramakrishna
2013-02-19 18:04         ` Westerberg, Mika
2013-02-19 18:22           ` Pallala, Ramakrishna
2013-02-19 18:38             ` Westerberg, Mika [this message]
2013-02-19 18:59               ` Pallala, Ramakrishna
2013-02-19 19:20                 ` Westerberg, Mika
2013-02-19 19:39                   ` Pallala, Ramakrishna

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