[ltp] Re: Generic battery interface

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:58:06AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:05:35AM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:
> 
> > Wonderful, but isn't the key here how simple it is for HAL
> > or X to understand and use the kernel API rather than the
> > developers of the kernel driver that implements the API?
> 
> HAL currently gets most of its information from sysfs, and managed to 
> deal with parsing the existing /proc/acpi/battery stuff. I don't think 
> there's any real difficulty there.
 
Yes, HAL does a lot of ugly work to be able to gather the information it needs.

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Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs