[ltp] Re: Generic battery interface

Jean Delvare linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:18:41 +0200


Hi Pavel,

> > frequently it can read from the chip. And no hardware monitoring chip I
> > know of can tell when the monitored value has changed - you have to read
> > the chip registers to know.
> 
> ACPI battery can tell when values change in significant way. (Like
> battery becoming critical).

Ah, good to know. But is there a practical use for this? I'd suspect
that the user wants to know the battery charge% all the time anyway,
critical or not.

-- 
Jean Delvare