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To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: apm.c and multiple battery slots 
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jdthood@mail.com said:
> > Then we could add one line for each battery slot,
> > indicating <battery status> <battery flag> <battery left % >
> > <remaining time in seconds>

> How about putting each of these lines in a separate proc file?  This
> would avoid changing the format of /proc/apm, which would break
> things.

Please don't add an APM-specific interface for batteries. Look at the other
code which talks to batteries - the ACPI code, SMBus and numerous other
drivers for embedded systems - and design an interface to userspace which
can be used by all of them.

Preferably not in /proc.

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dwmw2


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