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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@laptop.org,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au, len.brown@intel.com, greg@kroah.com,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Battery class driver.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:10:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adairiaeqtq.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161633509.4994.16.camel@hughsie-laptop> (Richard Hughes's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:58:29 +0100")

 > No, I think the distinction between batteries and ac_adapter is large
 > enough to have different classes of devices. You may have many
 > batteries, but you'll only ever have one ac_adapter. I'm not sure it's
 > an obvious abstraction to make.

Speaking from ignorance here, but what about (big) systems that have
multiple power supplies and multiple rails of AC power?  Would it make
sense to use the same abstraction for that as well as laptop AC adaptors?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-23 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1161628327.19446.391.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
2006-10-23 19:18 ` Battery class driver Dan Williams
2006-10-23 19:58   ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-23 20:10     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-10-23 20:48     ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-24  3:44       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-24 17:18       ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-25  7:42         ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2006-10-25  9:54           ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-25 12:11             ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 14:42               ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-25 22:25                 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 23:39                   ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-28 12:15                     ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-28 13:22                       ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-28 14:34                         ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-28 14:36                           ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-28 14:55                             ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 18:52                               ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 19:48                                 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 21:10                                   ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 15:09                         ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 15:31                           ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 18:12                           ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-31  7:49                             ` Greg KH
2006-10-31 13:28                               ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 19:31                                 ` Greg KH
2006-11-01 19:53                                   ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 20:53                                     ` Greg KH
2006-11-01 23:55                                       ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-02  3:45                                         ` Greg KH
2006-11-02 17:49                                         ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-02 19:19                                           ` Richard Hughes
2006-11-02 21:20                                           ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-03 12:46                                           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-03 15:13                                           ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-11-02 22:01                                         ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-03 13:12                                           ` U Kuehn
2006-11-05 20:52                                             ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-05 21:02                                               ` Jean Delvare
2006-11-01 21:27                                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-01 21:32                                       ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-31  7:59                             ` Jean Delvare
2006-10-31 13:42                               ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-31 13:51                                 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-10-31 14:06                                   ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 13:26                                     ` Richard Hughes
2006-11-01 13:54                                       ` David Woodhouse
2006-11-01 14:36                                         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-01 16:36                                           ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 16:55                                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-01 19:30                                       ` Greg KH
2006-11-02  7:52                                     ` Jean Delvare
2006-11-02  8:39                                       ` Richard Hughes
2006-11-02 13:54                                       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-02 17:52                                       ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-02 19:26                                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2006-11-03 13:23                                           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-03 14:20                                             ` Richard B. Johnson
2006-11-03 16:10                                               ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-10-28 18:55                           ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 19:53                             ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 21:05                               ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 21:54                                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-10-26  9:55                 ` [ltp] " FeRD
2006-10-28  5:12           ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-24  3:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-23 18:20 David Woodhouse
2006-10-23 18:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-23 18:30   ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-24  3:36   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-23 18:30 ` Greg KH
2006-10-23 18:32   ` Greg KH
2006-10-23 18:50   ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-24  3:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-23 21:04   ` Jean Delvare
2006-10-23 22:15 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-23 22:59   ` Greg KH
2006-10-24  1:31     ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-24  3:04       ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-24  2:56   ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-24  3:27     ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-24  3:48       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-24  3:53         ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-24  5:43           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-24 11:09           ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-24  2:04 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-25 10:45 ` Pavel Machek

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