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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:41:10 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: swsusp: don't eat ide disks
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Hi!

> >  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. 

Would you care to suggest how battery info should look like?
								Pavel
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