Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:20:06 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device |
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Hi!
> Whilst sort of on the subject (AC power switches and AC power events) > I'd like to see some standard way of exporting power/battery information > to userspace. Currently, the ARM handhelds use kernel emulation of an > APM bios and export the battery info as part of that. Making ARM emulate > ACPI interfaces doesn't appeal. The answer could be a battery sysfs > class and the above system events interface but I'm open to other > suggestions.
Battery sysfs class would be _very_ welcome. Both existing interfaces (APM and ACPI) are crap :-(. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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/
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