Re: Generic battery interface

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

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
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