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SubjectRe: libbattery was Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Add capacity handling
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> Am 19.10.2017 um 19:06 schrieb Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>:
>
> * H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> [171019 09:57]:
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>>> Am 19.10.2017 um 18:24 schrieb Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>:
>>>
>>> * H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> [171018 08:49]:
>>>>
>>>>> Am 18.10.2017 um 15:22 schrieb Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> * H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> [171018 05:49]:
>>>>>>> Am 18.10.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So I started something, it is at.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://github.com/pavelmachek/libbattery
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My battery on n900 is currently uncalibrated (and charging), still it
>>>>>>> gets some kind of estimation:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Battery -1 %
>>>>>>> Seconds -1
>>>>>>> State 1
>>>>>>> Voltage 3.88 V
>>>>>>> Battery 63 %
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course, there's a lot more work to be done.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nice start but not a solution to our problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our problem is that people simply expect that for example https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xfce/xfce4-battery-plugin
>>>>>> displays the battery percentage.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we could make things compatible with various battery apps by
>>>>> having libbattery write back the capacity percentage and time remaining
>>>>> to the kernel driver via sysfs or a dev entry. Then the kernel interface
>>>>> can just display the data to whatever apps.
>>>>
>>>> Hm. That would be quite difficult to understand and maintain code.
>>>
>>> How so? The libbattery can do it all, then the kernel drivers needing
>>> that will just display the most recent values to maintain compability
>>> with battery apps.
>>
>> Well, it looks as if you are thinking about a much more complex solution
>> than I am...
>>
>> The proposal we are discussing as
>>
>> [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Add capacity handling
>>
>> just reads the current voltage, charging current and uses a (nonlinear)
>> mapping to 0% .. 100%.
>
> Right, I was discussing Pavel's libbattery link posted above. No
> comments on the current patch series.

Well, it was triggered by Sebastian's comment on this patch that
some 10 years old Documentation recommends to write a libbattery.

And there is still some (weak) relation between the subject and libbattery.

> Let's move the libbattery stuff
> to a new thread to avoid confusion.

Agreed.

BR,
Nikolaus

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