Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver. | From | Richard Hughes <> | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:32:40 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 22:27 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > The drawback is that someone in userspace who doesn't care about > units > > but just wants to show a status report or compute the amount of > > remaining fooergy divided by the amount of a fooergy when fully > > charged, like your typical battery applet, will need to parse > > filenames (or try out a fixed and possibly partial list) to find out > > which attribute files contain the numbers. > > That's okay, we want userspace to use common library, and doing > > echo $[`cat capacity_remaining:*` / `cat capacity_total:*`] > > is not exactly rocket science. If greg does not like units suffixes, > that's okay, too, I'm sure handy wildcard match will be possible.
I'm guessing adding the new code to HAL will allow most stuff to keep working without any changes. I think battstat-applet defaults to using HAL, and I'm sure gnome-power-manager does. :-)
Richard.
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