Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751312AbWHBHSi (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 03:18:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751309AbWHBHSh (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 03:18:37 -0400 Received: from smtp-103-wednesday.nerim.net ([62.4.16.103]:16652 "EHLO kraid.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751307AbWHBHSg (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 03:18:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:18:41 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Pavel Machek Cc: Shem Multinymous , Vojtech Pavlik , "Brown, Len" , Matthew Garrett , kernel list , linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Mark Underwood , Greg KH Subject: Re: Generic battery interface Message-Id: <20060802091841.8585a72a.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20060731230145.GF3612@elf.ucw.cz> References: <41840b750607271332q5dea0848y2284b30a48f78ea7@mail.gmail.com> <20060727232427.GA4907@suse.cz> <41840b750607271727q7efc0bb2q706a17654004cbbc@mail.gmail.com> <20060728074202.GA4757@suse.cz> <41840b750607280814x50db03erb30d833802ae983e@mail.gmail.com> <20060728202359.GB5313@suse.cz> <41840b750607281548h5ee2219eka1de6745b692c092@mail.gmail.com> <41840b750607291406p2f843054rc89fa1c3c467688d@mail.gmail.com> <41840b750607301137t1e10fe88o3a1c73e7a4b4bf44@mail.gmail.com> <20060731233536.92b39035.khali@linux-fr.org> <20060731230145.GF3612@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 716 Lines: 20 Hi Pavel, > > frequently it can read from the chip. And no hardware monitoring chip I > > know of can tell when the monitored value has changed - you have to read > > the chip registers to know. > > ACPI battery can tell when values change in significant way. (Like > battery becoming critical). Ah, good to know. But is there a practical use for this? I'd suspect that the user wants to know the battery charge% all the time anyway, critical or not. -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/