On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:04:54AM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > * The following sensors should be removed: technology, > low capacity, and warning capacity. These are not really > something that should be "sensed".
Technology ok. I'm not too sure about low and warning, given that they normally can't be modified. > * The design capacity should be the maximum of the last known full > charge capacity, which is the maximum of the present capacity. > This is useful for checking the overall "health" of deteriorating > (lithium-ion) batteries. I disagree. Both batteries for my laptop had initially a higher capacity than designed for -- e.g. last full and design cap don't necessarily agree with each other. > * Sensors that have a maximum should report also percentages in > relation to these maximums. From the usability point of view, this > is probably almost always the right choice. That should be a task for userland, not the kernel. Joerg