Hi!

> External power framework - power supplies and power supplicants.
> 
> Supplicants (batteries so far) may ask to notify they when power supply
> arrive/gone. This framework used by battery class (next patches).
> 
> It's permitted for supply to be bound to several supplicants (think main
> and backup batteries).
> 
> It's also permitted for supplicants to consume power from several
> external supplies (say AC and USB).
> 
> Here is how it look like from userspace:
> 
>       # pwd
>       /sys/class/power_supply
>       # ls
>       ac  usb
>       # cat ac/online usb/online
>       1
>       0

Looks nice to me.
                                                Pavel
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