On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:35:32AM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > I like option 2 better, since it means that a userspace tool (like > GNOME) could learn how to operate a battery charge controller once and > then other laptops and devices could reuse the same interface. The > problem is that the ACPI battery driver can't see the charge control. > So either it would need a hook to allow per-vendor control like this > or the power_supply class would need to recognize separate charge > controllers.
I agree that this is preferable. One option would be to just use smapi and provide a hook to detach the ACPI driver, but that would potentially mean a certain amount of code duplication. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
