[ltp] Re: Generic battery interface

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On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:10:40 +0300, Shem Multinymous said:
> On 7/28/06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> > Is there a reliable (or hack-worthy) way for the kernel to determine how
> > often the values are re-posted by the hardware?
> 
> That's hardware-specific. Some drivers can know, others may just
> assume 1sec or 0.1sec or whatever.

That smells suspiciously like "We need an API for the hardware-specific
bits f code to pass the generic bits a value for this..." (and the
hardware-specific part can either ask the battery, or return a
hard-coded "10 seconds" that somebody measured, or whatever)....

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