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pavel@ucw.cz said:
>  Yes... But how should "generic" battery info look like?
> On apm you only know percentages and ETA left.
> On acpi you know voltages, capacities and present rate.
> On zaurus you only know voltages.
> It will be quite hard to decide "one correct interface". It should
> probably be called "/proc/power".

Battery info call returns a structure where some elements can be 'unknown'. 
ACPI does it like that already, IIRC -- it's not mandatory to actually fill 
in every field correctly. 

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