On Sat, 05 May 2007, ian wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>
> > Given that USB-power *is* usually also "dumb" (i.e. it doesn't do any
> > control signaling over the USB bus for power-control purposes),
>
> it might be dumb, but it is useful to know wether the PDA is charging
> from usb or mains power. and some devices allow one to switch on / off
> the ability to charge via usb
Which, at the proper abstraction level provided by this class, means that it
allows one to switch on or off a power supply channel.
Laptops let one do this with their batteries, too. It is the same thing. I
didn't check if the class comes with an attribute for "enable/disable this
power source", but if doesn't, we need to add one: it *is* a generic and
widely used capability in laptops, and according to you, also on PDAs.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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